[SunRescue] General Stuffiness

[William Janssen]

Doesn't sound Too snippy to me. But I also have a small complaint.
I wish people that want something or want to get rid of something
would say what part of the world they reside in. Something along
the lines of "Western New york or southern California would be
helpful.

Bill K7NOM (In northern California)

Eric Pueschel wrote:
> 
> I am not irritated by the following message.  It is a general offer to all the members of the list, listing equipment which we might be interested in acquiring.  Since there's a lot of us here who aren't strictly Sun fetishists and since all of us are interested in old computers, it makes a lot of sense to let us know about this.
> 
> >> Well, since everyone seems to be hyped on getting weird systems, I thought
> >> I'd mention my offerings which are just sittign around, maybe we can work
> >> a trade or something.
> >> MicroVax 3400 - No details on this, makes a great breakfast in bed tray
> <snip>
> >> Bids/trades are welcome :)
> 
> I am irritated by the message below.  It is an offer to a specific individual who has a "vs4000" and has expressed interest in getting rid of it. Those of us who do not have a "vs4000" are not interested, and those of us who are happy with our "vs4000's" are not interested either.  In short, it's intended for a very, very small audience.  Perhaps it's better sent as a private email directly to the individual?
> 
> >  i'll give you $20 for the vs4000 w/o the monitor, because i know how
> >heavy those things are, and there's no way i'm gonna pay to ship that.
> >;>  $50 for the ipx.
> 
> Pardon if I sound excessively snippy, but this sort of thing shouldn't need to be mentioned.  Please, folks, I've learned a lot from reading this list, but if I have to wade through too many messages like the one above, I'll unsubscribe.  I suspect that other people feel this way too.  Anyone remember why Usenet died?
> 
> --eric
> emp7 at cornell.edu
> 
> As a coda:  Normally I wouldn't send this message to the whole list, but I figured that someone ought to bitch about messages like this in public, just to strike home why it's a bad idea.  No more stuffiness,  I promise.  Back to work.
> 
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