VAX-11/785 available, act immediately

From: Tom Uban <uban_at_ubanproductions.com>
Date: Thu Apr 18 10:42:35 2002

Ops, I accidently crossed the streams, this was meant for the
info-pdp11_at_village.org list...

--tom

At 09:33 AM 4/18/02 -0500, you wrote:
>At 09:55 AM 4/18/02 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>>Johnny Billquist <bqt_at_update.uu.se> writes:
>>
>>> > I had no profit motive and am in no way associated with the originator
>>> > of the message I forwarded. (*He* undoubtedly expects to make a modest
>>> > profit as finder of the equipment.)
>>>
>>> Okay. So this was a probing for business. Then it also was spam.
>
>Here is my 2 cents.
>
>The original post seems pretty innocuous to me and if you read it closely,
>you would have figured out that the poster and the person who had the machine
>were two different people.
>
>The poster (in my opinion) was just trying to share a find with someone who
>might be interested in saving a classic from the scrap mill.
>
>I have dealt with the person/company who was making the offer to save the
>machine for a profit, and yes that is what companies do. This guy is paid
>to make money for his company. I had an email conversation with him and it
>would appear that they bought some of the parts from the machine for resale
>to their customers and this guy put some enough extra thought into it to
>think that there is this group of crazy collectors our there that might be
>interested in the machine. Yes he is probably thinking from a profit point
>of view, but at least he is thinking of us. There are so many of these guys
>that don't think of us and end up destroying old machines which would make
>great projects for someone on this group, that it make me ill.
>
>Further, in my mind, the endless number of worthless flaming messages which
>were spawned by a list members attempt at providing a pointer to an available
>machine is *far* worse than an infrequent piece of spam, which we ought to
>just ignore.
>
>Can't we all just enjoy our hobby instead of ragging on each other?
>
>--tom
>
>
>
Received on Thu Apr 18 2002 - 10:42:35 BST