Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Path: utzoo!telly!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Subject: Re: Where to post "for sale" stuff (was Re: For sale: 330Meg Priam...)
Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 90 12:54:08 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Jun15.125408.17034@druid.uucp>
References: <11319@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <458@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> <QaQwa9600W0WM7k1I=@andrew.cmu.edu> <456@inmet.UUCP>

In article <456@inmet.UUCP> newbie@inmet.UUCP (Chris Newbold) writes:
>In article <QaQwa9600W0WM7k1I=@andrew.cmu.edu> mp2k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Palmquist) writes:
>> [...]
>>know when (or if) such a board will come to be.  I wouldn't mind having
>>a place to look when I'm interested in hardware, but I don't think it
>>should be this group.
>Ah.  Isn't this what the "distribution" field is for?  Rather than leaving
>it blank (i.e. "whole world"), you could enter "usa" to restrict the message

No it isn't.  The distribution field is designed to keep articles of local
interest local.  If you have something for sale it belongs in another group.
The question of distribution then comes up in that other group.

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