Re: !!!!!!! 2.6 GB Hard Drives $320 8 MB SIMMS $68 16 MB SIMMS $136 -- LISTEN UP!!

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From: gran... Don
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 00:00

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In article <31d7ab6c...@news.mindlink.net>,
   Fausto...@mindlink.bc.ca (Fausto Mauro) wrote:
>On Sun, 30 Jun 1996 09:27:42 -0500, Scott <sbr...@hic.net> wrote:
>
>>Mike Muir wrote:
>>> 
>>> In article <31C6E9...@ionet.net>, Shane Rudolph <t...@ionet.net> wrote:
>>> >! 2.6 GB Hard Drives $320 8 MB SIMMS $68 16 MB SIMMS $136 !
>>> >!!!!!  NEC 4X CDROM $52 !!!!
>>> >
>>> >TRANS-TEL CENTRAL COMPUTERS, INC.
>>> >4623 NW 23RD
>>> >OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA 73127
>>> >PHONE 405.948.7738
>>> >EMAIL t...@ionet.net
>>> 
>>> *stuff cut*
>>> 
>>> OK LISTEN UP. These prices may be pretty ordinary in America, but where I 
come
>>> from (Dunedin, New Zealand) Memory cost FIVE TIMES this amount and Hard 
drives
>>> cost FOUR TIMES THIS - So maybe this person was directing this to THE 
WORLD
>>> rather than just you goons.
>>> 
>>> HAVE SOME RESPECT - he's only doing his job..
>>
>>Quit posting your damn adds in this newsgroup.
>Hey Scott Why don`t you go head up some hitler youth ralley
>or  something ;Shit who made you chief over this or any other news
>group for that matter.

Nobody is "chief" of this (or almost any other) newsgroup.
News is as near to anarchy as anything you will ever find.
This is generally a good thing - but anarchy only works well
if all involved parties behave responsibly.

That is no longer the case for UseNet news.  The spam is overwhelming.
Look at the newsgroup list for this article.  I am reading this from 
comp.sys.intel which used to be for technical information.  Now it, like most
other technical groups, is flooded with hard drive ads, memory ads, MS-Windows 
v.s. Mac wars, rants against Bill Gates (he doesn't own Intel - yet), and all 
kinds of other rubbish.  The combined effect of the vastly diminished quality 
of news content combined with the childish attitude of so many posters is that 
a lot of the best, technically informed people are tuning out.  Perhaps 
someday soon the only people still reading news will be the ranters and 
spammers.  So... KEEP THE DAMNED ADS OUT OF ALL INAPPROPRIATE NEWSGROUPS!

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From: gran...@phonet.com (Don)
Subject: Re: !!!!!!! 2.6 GB Hard Drives $320 8 MB SIMMS $68 16 MB SIMMS $136 -- LISTEN UP!!
Date: 1996/07/05
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