Re: Commercial Messages in CSA2

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Mark Frischknecht wrote:
> 1. CSA2 has about 600 messages a month. Which means it is not a really 
> active group needing everything to be sorted for ease of use.
>
> 2. It is hard enough to sell Apple 2 hardware. And you want people to 
> post it to a rarely read sub group.

If it's rarely read, it shouldn't be--there is a steady trickle of
postings that are of interest to many Apple II enthusiasts.

Most news readers, and Google Groups, make it trivial to check a list
of newsgroups, so the three active csa groups and comp.emulators.apple2
seem like a fairly minimal set to watch.

I do agree that no hardship results from posting just about anything
vaguely Apple II-related to csa2, but there is some value in keeping
the other groups active and relevant--otherwise, they should be dropped.

Allowing a group to languish invites hijacking, as was the case with
csa2.binaries.

-michael

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