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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!yale.edu!cs.yale.edu!news
- From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
- Subject: Re: Holiday NeXT Sale!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.080556.6774@cs.yale.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: hilbert.biology.yale.edu
- Reply-To: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
- Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
- References: <sgold.725444777@well.sf.ca.us>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 08:05:56 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <sgold.725444777@well.sf.ca.us> sgold@well.sf.ca.us (Sam
- Goldberger) writes:
-
- > 1) The very title of the group ("marketplace") specifically
- > connotes commercial activity, since that is what goes on
- > in a marketplace. Following Jim's login, this group
- > ought to be disbanded, or at least renamed. Do we want this?
-
- The title "marketplace" does not imply any commercial
- connotation whatsoever. It is a USENET naming scheme for
- a group in which individuals post "for sale" items.
-
- USENET does in fact have groups that are specifically
- designated for business "for-profit" usage: the
- biz.* groups.
-
- The correct solution to this problem IMHO would be for Sam
- and other commercial vendors to post to
- biz.next.marketplace or somesuch group, and make the
- existence of traffic in that group known to the readers of
- the csn groups.
-
- Sam's post was important, but it would have been better
- placed in those biz.next.* groups.
-
- --
- Nathan Janette
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- Please reply to: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (NeXT)
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