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Subject: Champaign-Area *.classifieds.* - Where To Post
From: tskirvin@uiuc.edu (Tim Skirvin)
Message-ID: <classifieds.faq.20010701050006$464b@news.crhc.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: tskirvin@uiuc.edu
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 00:00:06 -0500
Expires: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 05:00:05 GMT
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Champaign-Area *.classifieds.* - Where To Post
A Periodic Posting
So, you want to buy or sell something, eh? You've come to the
right place. Now, you just have to make sure you're posting to the right
group...
cmi.*
cmi.* is the appropriate place to post classifieds of interest to
the entire community. If you want to deal with the largest group of people,
you'll probably want to post here.
cmi.classifieds.housing Renting and selling of apartments and houses,
sublets, requests for roommates, discussions
about landlords, and other housing issues
for the C-U area.
cmi.classifieds.personals Looking for a significant other, bragging about
your own, sex talk, and whatever other stuff
you'd want to appear in a personal ad.
cmi.classifieds.computer Buying and selling computer hardware and
software, video games, computer books, or
anything else computer-related. Please,
no tech support questions (try cmi.comp).
cmi.classifieds.vehicles Cars, trucks, motorcycles, buggies, bikes,
skateboards, rollerblades, and everything
else that helps you get from one place to
another.
cmi.jobs Employers looking for employees and employees
looking for employers.
cmi.consumer Discussion about area consumer industries,
such as auto repair, dentistry, optometry,
and so forth.
cmi.consumer.gourmand Discussions of restaurants and other food-
related industries.
cmi.consumer.isp Discussions of Internet Service Providers.
cmi.classifieds Anything else you might want to buy, sell,
trade, or announce to the entire area.
cmi.comp Community tech support. Questions and
answers about strange (and not so strange)
computer problems.
cmi.announce Community-wide event announcements. Please,
no commercial posts or advertisements.
cmi.general Anything that didn't get specifically
mentioned above but would be of interest to
the entire community.
uiuc.*
uiuc.* may only be used for internal communication between students
and staff of the University of Illinois; only those people may read and/or
post to the uiuc.* hierarchy. uiuc.* is appropriate only for those classifieds
of direct interest to those bodies. Commercial postings are entirely banned
from uiuc.*, as required by CCSO and state law.
uiuc.campusonly.rides Requests-for and offers of rides to and from
other parts of the country, for UIUC students
and faculty only.
uiuc.campusonly.textbooks Class texts for sale or trade.
uiuc.campusonly.housing Looking for a roommate or a place to live
on campus only.
uiuc.soc.personals Personal ads for the UIUC community.
uiuc.cs.jobs Computer-related jobs of interest to UIUC
students and staff.
uiuc.misc.jobs Other jobs of interest to UIUC students and
staff.
uiuc.announce Announcements of interest to the entire UIUC
community. Please, no commercial posts or
advertisements.
uiuc.general Discussion of other topics relevant to the
UIUC community.
Other Issues
o Don't try to crosspost between the two hierarchies.
o Never post the same advertisement more than once in the same week.
o Only post to the most appropriate newsgroups, not to all of them.
o If you're going to crosspost, make sure you set followups appropriately.
o Try to keep discussion within the classifieds group to a minimum.
o Sellers: don't try to rip anybody off. Buyers: Let The Buyer Beware.
o If these newsgroups don't appear in your list of newsgroups, you'll have to
add them manually. The instructions, from various popular newsreaders:
Netscape Collabra: File/Add Discussion Group [NEWSGROUP]
Pine: a [NEWSGROUP]
slrn: a [NEWSGROUP]
o Don't take any of this too seriously - this is just a computer...
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Copyright 1999, Tim Skirvin. All rights reserved.