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- From: philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)
- Subject: Re: Is ANYBODY Selling Anything? (was Re: Holiday NeXT Sale!!)
- Message-ID: <C09oLD.LwF@utstat.toronto.edu>
- Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
- References: <1992Dec31.074242.11117@crl.com> <1993Jan1.062646.13689@cs.yale.edu> <1i4visINNrg8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 07:24:49 GMT
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- In article <1i4visINNrg8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> an602@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James M. Bernatowicz) writes:
- >
- >I thought this issue was resolved last week with the "discovery" of the biz.*
- >groups? I fail to see how placing a commercial post in a seperate newsgroup
- >is going to destroy "our sense of community" or NeXT's market for that matter.
- >What does this say about NeXT users? Are we so lazy that we will not peruse
- >seperate groups to seek out great deals? Let's get back to buying and selling,
- >OK?
-
- Nope. I can imagine that people do not want to peruse every newsgroup that
- exists. We don't even receive the biz.* ones, as far as I can tell. The point
- regarding community is simply that one gets to know the people interested in
- NeXT if one sees their names and messages enough. In fact the splitting up of
- comp.sys.next contributed to this loss of sense of community. It separated
- the various users into camps. It's not as though there are millions of NeXT
- users. For weeks people worried about putting in $ figures into postings when
- every other group was doing it. Now it's considered acceptable. What I am
- implying is that there's no reason to change the current system (except to
- get rid of a few groups).
-
- This message is for sale for $5, and so is an unopened copy of Common Lisp
- for the NeXT (not for $5).
-
- Philip
- philip@utstat.toronto.edu
-