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- Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!relay!relay2!afterlife!michael
- From: michael@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Michael of Nebadon)
- Newsgroups: misc.forsale
- Subject: Re: ********** COMPUTER STUFF DOESN'T BELONG HERE **********
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.035716.5016@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 03:57:16 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.181542.22209@schbbs.mot.com> <By1Bqu.EnK@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Organization: The Great Beyond
- Lines: 24
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- In article <By1Bqu.EnK@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> kmurphy@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Kevin Murphy) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov20.181542.22209@schbbs.mot.com> R1156C@waccvm.corp.mot.com (Michael Dow) writes:
- >> POST COMPUTER SALES (and related software and peripherals) TO
- >>MISC.FORSALE.COMPUTER.(X) where (X) IS THE MOST CLOSELY RELATED SUBGROUP
- >>TO YOUR ITEM(s).
- >
- >Maybe you should get a clue, this is called misc.forsale.
- >Computer stuff is MISC ! If you don't want to read them
- >just press '=' and read the headlines. Nobody is forcing
- >you to read them.
-
- Like you, I find all the "post that oogy computer stuff somewhere else"
- posts to be annoying. Whenever I start to post a knock-it-off post or
- e-mail, though, I have to catch myself. I mean, let's face it, they're
- right. If there's a misc.forsale.computer (not to mention a whole
- misc.forsale.computer.* hierarchy) then computer stuff should go there
- and not to the more general misc.forsale.
-
- Personally, I would prefer it if the type-A's would just e-mail their
- caps-locked posts to the offenders, but as long as they use a good
- subject line (as the poster in this case does) I can always skip it
- if I want.
-
- michael@afterlife.ncsc.mil
-