Re: First draft of a potential uk.comp.sys.mac RFD. was Re: UK Mac newsgroup?

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From: Rebecca and Rowland
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 00:00

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Dennis Summerbell <d-summer@nimr.mrc.ac.uk> wrote:

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> I'd be in favour of allowing private sales. I checked uk.adverts.computer
> and it currently had over 1200 entries (I think a 7 day accumulation) .
> A search on Title for "mac" revealed only 27 hits. No doubt I missed a few
> that did not have Mac in the title. I don't think that this would be an
> excessive load for a uk.comp.sys.mac newsgroup.

In itself, no.  But...  I'm concerned that if adverts are allowed at
all, then the group will inevitably attract commercial advertising
disguised as private adverts.  Given that a newsgroup exists for
advertising Mac bits anyway, I think it's as well to leave the ban in
place.  My thoughts on `relaxing' the prohibition were that there's no
great harm done if, say, someone's just been asking about their
PowerBoook screen which has packed up, and it turns out that it needs a
prohibitively expensive replacement.  In that situation, I don't see
that there's a problem with saying `Anyone want to buy this PowerBook?"

Rowland.

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From: real-address-in-sig@rhu.barb.foobar (Rebecca and Rowland)
Subject: Re: First draft of a potential uk.comp.sys.mac RFD. was Re: UK Mac newsgroup?
Date: 1998/05/22
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