Is it permitted to offer for sale here?

If you assume that ANY group which does not have in its name ads forsale marketplace OR biz does NOT welcome ads, that is a good starting point.

When the sci.electronics hierarchy was sub-divided in 1996,

Oh I dunno. It's the commercial tripe then that annoys me. Personal people just selling off or looking for their wares I quite enjoy reading.

Post up the numbers and a contact address (yahoo is good since the account is disposable/spam). You may as well do it to this thread now that it's started.

My main gripe is when people just click Reply and include everything from previous messages. Dad at home is still on dialup and loves Usenet.

Aly wrote:

In that case, you should visit the forsale groups. Once the FS crap get started in a *discussion* group, the idiots start coming along, seeing it, and posting their own FS crap--then there's no end to it.

I vote yes for posts of obscure or interesting items and parts of interest to this NG; I would never think to search interminably in FS NGs, eBay, etc. for so much of what I'm still seeking. If someone had an old HMI-200 ICE for example (I need spares, etc) I would like to see it here instead of conducting fruitless searches forever elsewhere.

Michael

In that case, you should propose comp.arch.embedded.forsale.

Thanks for mentioning that; I've raised that suggestion in the past. The process is a bit onerous however ;)

Michael

But this newsgroup is comp.arch.embedded! We are slightly more tolerant, in that small non-commercial ads are not criticized too much.

JeffM wrote:

msg wrote:

I'm hearing you say that the vast majority think that *forsale* is an aberrant paradigm here.

We'll I'll put it this way:

I have the following extra chips that I'd like to see put to good use. If anyone wishes to obtain them, contact me at my email (derive from below) and we'll talk in private:

33MHz Dragonball CPU:

4Mx16 DRAM:

I have the datasheets too. If anyone needs them to review I'll email a copy.

Not to fuel the fire, but...

I happen to have an old HMI-200 ICE (6809). You can have it if we can figure out a way to get it to you.

-Rich

Noted. :-)

Do you see the words 'ads' or 'marketplace' in the newsgroup name?

However for private individuals or companies wishing to off load redundant kit I can see no harm as long as it does not get out of hand. Many here do this as a hobby and would like to have 2nd hand stuff.

If it was commercial companies who normally sell things trying to sell normal stock that would be a different matter.

The other tip I was given it is usually better to apologise for doing it (having done it) than ask first. :-)

On Jun 24, 8:11 am, Chris Hills wrote: ...

Our high school physics teacher (who was new) taught us that. He invited us to an after-school acetylene+oxygen-filled-balloon explosion demonstration on the football field. Boy did he get it the next day from the principal. Then he told us... it's better to ask forgiveness for something like that afterwards than to ask for permission first.

(Gee, Mr. Principal, can I set off acetylene-filled balloon bombs on the football field this afternoon...?)

This posting appeared in my newsreader titled "Is it permitted to offer for sale her". I had to read it to see if someone whose first language isn't English was selling his wife or girlfriend.