ok this whole thread has gone out of control
i posted looking for anyone interested, its worth noting i posted to chat first - gave some time, and then to slug.
obviously i didnt intend to spawn such a flame war. perhaps the word "negotiable" would have stopped this
anyway regardless. i have had some interested parties come forward, which was my intent. i would far more like to send my sgi to a good home through slug than to any tom dick and harry from ebay and also be at the mercies of ebay.
Dean
Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Ben de Luca wrote:
On 21/01/2005, at 2:39 PM, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, O Plameras wrote:
Does this list-service tolerate 'public ridicule' to a reasonable comment ?
Depends on how you define your "reasonable comment".
I think this is a reference to my email that answered the question jeff asked me? If I was unreasonable in that email can you please explain what was unreasonable?
I think that posting for sale ads on the main SLUG list is unreasonable. I think that replying to those for sale ads with suggestions that the seller is out of their mind is also unreasonable. Those I can live with, because they're drops in the river compared to the "my browser doesn't work on my banks website" that we see so frequently.
I think that your email that "answered the question" that Jeff asked you was unreasonable because your comment was subjective opinion, and carried no supporting evidence.
Let's look at it:
"Yes its interesting hardware but computers are worthless 2nd hand."
With that statement in mind I presume you find the efforts of organisations such as Computerbank totally useless, or even nonexistent.
Then you go on to say:
"But really I guess its worth what people will pay, As much as might of wanted it, I wont pay $2500 though."
Now earlier I picked on you for your terrible grammar, and I'm sorry, because it's clear what you meant. However you're acknowledging that a 2nd hand computer has value, which goes in direct contradiction with what you said before.
So if Jeff then decides to reply with public ridicule because you're not being self consistent, then I believe his motives are correct, even if his methods are unpopular.
So no, I don't think your comment was reasonable.
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