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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).