[SunRescue] General Stuffiness

[Eric Pueschel]

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.