Tubes wanted, in any quantity and condition. I am looking for gas discharge display-tubes (nixies) as listed above. The tubes I am especially interested in are:
- CD47, GR-414, GR-727, GR-628, GR1620, CD27: giant tubes from Okaya in Japan
- B-7971, B-8971 or other alphanumeric indicator tubes from Burroughs, USA
- Z568M, Z5680: huge tubes from RFT, East Germany.
I am also interested in any other display tubes/nixies. If you possess some, you are more than welcome to offer a price. My email address is found here (anti spam):
Hey, there is no need to become insulting. I am new to these news- groups. Obviously I did not know exactly where to post it. And there is definetely no reason at all to welcome a new member with talk like that.
I apologise for the multiple posts, but I am not so familiar with these groups.
...and it is typical of online posting venues to have a charter or a guidelines page:
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*-*+only-advertise+sci.electronics.equipment-Test-lab-*-*-*-*+already.available.solutions+the.rec.hierarchy+*.*.not.a.forsale.group+zz-zz+Discussion ...but SPAMMERS don't get caught up in such details.
OK. Go away and don't come back. One less SPAMMER? Sounds good to me.
You are right, definetely, preperation would have prevented this. I admit this and apologise for it.
But one thing I have to say. I'm actually sad, that in a newsgroup - originally designed for help amongs fellow electronic hobbyists - I have to come across such needless verbal offences. Even if someone does something wrong, is it each and everyone's right do affront somebody to be an "a**hole"? That's a little childish, don't you think? We're all grownups here, hm? Do you really think this is necessary?
They were not created for 'hobbyist', but for people who work in electronics. This newsgroup is about test equipment, manuals for test equipment, and help locating parts or whole pieces of equipment. Hobbyists are welcome, as long as they play by the rules:
This is not a "For sale" newsgroup. Any electronics related sale messages belong on or
for Google users.
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This is not the right newsgroup though, and he posted it all over the place like he was using a splatter gun. All I'm trying to do is show the right way to find what he wants.
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Central Florida
Well, maybe the >>This is not a "For sale" newsgroup.
Yup.
JW wrote:
Let's recap:
This is obviously a *commercial* effort. In pursuit of that, the OP is trying to leverage what he sees as *free ads on Usenet*. This is NOT in the spirit of ANY of the groups to which he posted this.
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There is a group set up *specifically* for commercial traffic. It is listed in the Charter (to which I linked) and Mike posted the direct link. Here it is again: news:misc.industry.electronics.marketplace
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I do. If the OP is going to use the *splatter* approach (excellent word, Mike), he needs to become aware of the consequences of his actions and how to make them as benign as possible FOR OTHERS. (The *marked as read* paradigm was noted in the Wikipedia article to which I linked.)[1]
If he is going to continue to spew THE SAME THING to MULTIPLE GROUPS (if, and only if, those posts are less overtly COMMERCIAL in nature), he needs to get a proper newsreader
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*-Gravity+Xnews+Pan+trademark+Disclaimers+last.modified+*-Agent+nonprofit+Thunderbird (Google limits you 5 cross-posts) and a proper NNTP provider.
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My take on this is that, outside of his narrow self-interest (profit), the OP has no interest in the Usenet community and (like so many Usenet abusers who are wannabe businessmen), he doesn't recognize that legitimate vendors know that advertising is a cost of business--just like rent and utilities. . . [1] I am one of the MANY who has bitched about (and to) Google about their lack of responsible stewardship as an NNTP provider.
?answer=46492+don't-use-Usenet-as-an-advertising-medium+Usenet+*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-telemarketer+2006+be.interested+inappropriate-commercial-messages into a click-thru page that people have to acknowledge
**before** their initial access to posting privileges, I think things would improve significantly.
OTOH, Google's limp-wristed approach to obvious spammers who *already* have access is going to take a **real** commitment and (as the wiki article hints at) before that improves, the guy in charge there is going to have to grow a pair.
I'm sorry to destroy your imaginations, but I'm not a businessman whatsoever. I'm just interested in these tubes and would like to collect different types. That's why I wrote "in any quiantity or condition". I'm interested in single tubes (maybe even defective) as well as in many tubes (lots of 50 or more) to build some clocks. I apologise if I haven't made this clear enough.
I think a misunderstanding is the root of this discussion we're having now. I am no businessman (as stated above) whatsoever, just a private person trying to collect some tubes.
I don't know how much times I have told you that I did not know these groups were linked so I obviously didn't want to multipost or "use the splatter-methode"...
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