🚀 go-pugleaf

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.

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