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- Archive-name: aus-ads
- Posting-Frequency: fortnightly
- Last-modified: $Date: 1995/02/07 22:41:18 $
- Version: $Revision: 1.9 $
-
- CONTENTS
- ========
-
- 1) How to use the aus.ads newsgroups
- 2) Readers of the aus.ads newsgroups (Americans, please read!)
- 3) The aus.ads newsgroups
- 4) Subject lines
- 5) Followups and complaints.
- 6) Miscellaneous
-
-
- 1) How to use the aus.ads newsgroups
- ====================================
-
- This document describes how the aus.ads newsgroups are intended to be
- used. These are not rules - on Usenet, there are no rules - but if you
- do not follow them, people can give you a hard time. So, please take
- the time to read this guide, and bear it in mind when you post to the
- aus.ads groups.
-
- Some simple general `rules' to remember:
-
- a) Choose the right newsgroup!
- b) Don't crosspost!
- c) Don't post the same article in multiple groups!
-
- This eliminates the possibility of being publicly castigated for being a
- twit, and it will also ensure that your advertisement is read by people
- who want to see it. Not doing so will result in people getting annoyed
- with you, putting you in their killfiles or posting derogatory follow-up
- messages, thus reducing the effectiveness of your advertisement and any
- future advertisements you might place.
-
-
- 2) Readers of the aus.ads newsgroups
- ====================================
-
- This section is aimed towards American advertisers, who have been
- flooding these newsgroups with their advertisements. They are prone to
- assume that everyone lives in the U. S. of A., and therefore knows how
- to access their toll-free numbers, use their currency, obey their laws
- and understand their lingo.
-
- The `aus' in aus.ads is an abbreviation of `Australia'. The aus.ads
- newsgroups are intended for residents in Australia, New Zealand and the
- surrounding islands. This means:
-
- a) Readers assume prices quoted are in their local currency (usually
- Australian or New Zealand dollars).
-
- b) It is in bad taste to advertise goods or services unavailable to, or
- illegal for, residents.
-
-
- 3) The aus.ads newsgroups
- =========================
-
- Below is a description of all the newsgroups in this hierarchy:
-
- aus.ads.commercial - Commercial advertisements, both wanted and for
- ------------------ sale. Jobs go in aus.ads.jobs.
-
- aus.ads.forsale - Miscellaneous items for sale (except computers) by
- --------------- individuals. Commercial advertisements go in
- aus.ads.commercial.
-
- aus.ads.forsale.computers - Computer hardware and software sold by
- ------------------------- individuals. Commercial advertisements go
- in aus.ads.commercial.
-
- aus.ads.jobs - Jobs wanted or available.
- ------------
-
- aus.ads.wanted - All items wanted by individuals, including
- -------------- computer hardware and software. Commercial
- advertisements go in aus.ads.commercial.
-
-
- 4) Subject lines
- ================
-
- The subject line that you use should look like this:
-
- Subject: <Item> [LOCATION]
-
- For example:
-
- Subject: 1978 Datsun 200B, with excellent rust [WOLLONGONG]
- Subject: AS/400 Programmer/Analyst [DARWIN]
-
- There is no need to add `wanted', `job available', or `for sale',
- as that is usually implied by an appropriate choice of newsgroup (see
- Section 3).
-
- The LOCATION is necessary because your advertisement will go out to
- the entire continent and half the rest of the planet.
-
- Use a `Distribution:' line if you know of an appropriate distribution
- for your ad.
-
- For example, `melb' means Melbourne, `aus' means Australia.
-
-
- 5) Followups and complaints
- ===========================
-
- If you object to an advertisement for whatever reason, please complain
- to the poster or the poster's site administrator via e-mail. The site
- administrator is usually postmaster@site.name.
-
- Please try not to follow-up to the Aus.ads newsgroups, since these are
- intended for advertisements, not discussion.
-
- Please direct discussion to appropriate newsgroups by modifying the
- ``Followup-To:'' line (eg. Followup-To: aus.computers). Some suggested
- newsgroups for followups are:
-
- aus.bicycles - human-powered vehicles.
- aus.cars - motor vehicles
- aus.comms - modems.
- aus.computers - computers in general.
- aus.computers.amiga - Amiga
- aus.computers.ibm-pc - IBM-PC
- aus.computers.mac - Macintosh
- aus.computers.sun - Sun
- aus.net.aarnet - Usenet for advertising.
- aus.general - everything else.
-
-
- 6) Miscellaneous
- ================
-
- a) Nobody knows what your stuff is worth, but sometimes people ask for
- ridiculous prices for computer equipment. A sad, but true, fact is that
- computer hardware depreciates at a huge rate. Check around classified
- advertisements for gear like yours before setting a price. You will
- probably be shocked by how little your five-year-old PC is worth. This
- goes for anything, as much as computers.
-
- b) If you include a phone number in your advertisements, remember to
- include your area code and a contact name.
- For example: `(0X) YYY-ZZZZ, ask for Alwyn'.
-
- c) Further discussion on whether advertising is allowed is referred to
- aus.net.aarnet, where people actually give a damn.
-
-
- --
- Soh Kam Hung phone: +61 3 25-36467 h.soh@trl.oz.au
- Network Management Research, Telstra Research Laboratories
- PO Box 249 Rosebank MDC, Clayton, Victoria 3169, Australia
-