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: Sat, 23 May 1998 00:00

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Paul Womar <{$PW$}@pwomar.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Rebecca and Rowland <real-address-in-sig@rhu.barb.foobar> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> If once the group gets going there appears to be a need/support for
> adverts then we can consider a .forsale/.adverts group.

Certainly, but...  Given the existance of uk.adverts.computer, is a
special uk.adverts.computer.mac group likely to be needed?  Of course,
if one *is* needed, why not?  I personally can't see it being likely -
the current group seems to do for all sorts of stuff quite happily.

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: 1998/05/23
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