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- From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
- Subject: Re: Prices on c.s.n.announce
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- References: <199208281821.AA05203@cnam.cnam.fr>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 04:43:15 GMT
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- eronald@CNAM.CNAM.FR (Edmund Ronald) writes:
- > After seeing yet another $XXX.XX on c.s.n.announce the other night,
- > rather than yell or reboot my cube, I posted a call for people willing
- > to vote to send me mail so that I can make a credible call for a vote
- > on this single issue: Leaving prices in, instead of emasculating all
- > those sexy product announcments :-)
-
- Hmm. Should we be debating this in csn.advocacy?
-
- In any case, I would kinda like to see the prices included too.
-
- I do have some reservations though. I don't want to see the newsgroups
- flooded with pricing wars, and I don't want to see the newsgroups flooded
- with product information. Assuming the prices show up only in moderated
- posts (to csn.announce), maybe there isn't much danger of the above
- happening. I don't feel comfortable about it, however.
-
- I know if *I* was selling something, there would be a strong temptation for
- me to figure out any way possible to keep my product in the "public eye"
- (usenet) for as much as possible. I don't want usenet to become the
- electronic equivalent of my own US mailbox, where I get much more junk mail
- than real information.
-
- --
- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
- ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
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