Re: SDRAM + MONITOR

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From: Alan Vidler
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 04:23

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>>what an asshole - how am I a "fucking knob" if the price of ram is half of
>>what was posted.  nowhere in his post is there anything saying that he was
>>australian or that he was talking about australian dollars.  If there was
>>some indication that he was talking about Australian currency I would have
>>left it alone.  Since this newsgroup is also not country specific, it was my
>>natural reaction to read the dollar sign as american dollars.  Shit, those
>>prices would be AWSOME if they were Hong Kong dollars........
>
>This is a fair call IMHO.  The universal trading currency worldwide is
>US$ if not stated otherwise, so I think e1000 made a fair comment.
>
>Anyone who's ever done any importing/exporting will know this is true.
>If you restrict posts to those newsgroups which a obviously and
>exclusively Australian then its a fair bet figures are going to be in
>AU$, but if not, and you don't specify, well, the assumption is (and
>should be) US currency.

[at great risk of being stupid as just came into this]

The whole thing seems to have resulted from cross-postings.  I read
this in aus.ads.forsale.computers.used which *is* Australian and thus
*should* have prices in AU$ and thought rude things about wrong
people, until I saw cross posting to alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt.

===> suggest check carefully on cross postings before (a) quoting in
unspecified $ , (b) issuing abusive flames on people (gentle reminders
appropriate)

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From: Alan Vidler <avidler@pcug.org.au>
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Subject: Re: SDRAM + MONITOR
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