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- From: ciardo@cs.tu-berlin.de (Gianfranco Ciardo)
- Subject: Re: Prices on c.s.n.announce
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.104839.7216@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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- Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
- References: <199208281821.AA05203@cnam.cnam.fr> <!xtygpa@rpi.edu>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 10:48:39 GMT
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- In article <!xtygpa@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) writes:
- > In any case, I would kinda like to see the prices included too.
-
- Good!
-
- > 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.
-
- Maybe???? There is exactly as much danger as there is now!!!!
- Why should the "commercial advertisement" increase once the price is allowed?
- At most, there will be more reasons to do repeated postings following a price
- change, but that seems much better than seeing an announce saying that product
- XYZ is now selling at the reduced price of $xxx.xx, down from $xxx.xx. :-(
- Now, that will be informative!
-
- The moderator will still have the opportunity to refuse a posting if it
- is a repeat, exactly as much as he does now.
-
- > 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.
-
- What has this to do with the "price" VS. "no price" issue ?????
- The possibility of being flooded with commercial advertisement is already
- here. The reason we do not see twenty times a day ads for product XYZ in
- the csn* newsgroup is certainly not the "no price" policy currently in place.
-
- I don't mind a discussion about the price issue in this group, but please,
- let's use some solid arguments.
-
- BTW, I find it funny that the price censorship applies to actual values,
- but not to orders of magnitude (I am sure everyone has noted the $xx.xx
- VS. the $xxx.xx in several postings, lately).
-