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SewFunSewCrazy of http://groups.google.com uttered
Okay. I apologized three hours before your posted!!.

Have lurked and read quite a few times over the past few years. I have
even bought a basic sewing machine for my Daughter from a nice lady
that posted it here. I also took a few minutes to check out more in
depth messages. I guess *cat bowling* would be considered MORE sewing
related than an Embroidery Machine that a person who SEWS may like to
purchase. I know I am more interested in sewing machines for sale than
cat games, but I guess it depends who is posting.


The post to which you refer was part of some daft banter and light
relief floating around following a fairly long-lasting thread which
wandered all over the place. Which you would know if you'd been around
for more than five mins. Incidentally, I found in the Google archive a
grand total of *one* (count it - one) post from you on any topic
whatsoever, and that was from 2003 and over in alt.sewing. You asked for
opinions/ information about software, but volunteered/ contributed
absolutely nothing yourself. Presumably this sums up your level of
interest?

Those of us who actually SEW as you put it (and I do, for a living as it
happens) do have additional topics of conversation. Those of us wanting
to buy a machine will go and look for one - and then possibly ask around
to see what anyone actually knows about a particular marque/ model. We
can all work a search engine sufficiently to find the classifieds. I
remember the rec.crafts groups in the late 1990s when Ebay started up,
and I doubt any of us really want to go back there..

I re-iterate: this was one of a number of groups some time ago which was
being swamped with potty little adverts - some of them sewing related,
but not all. Look in the archives fromm1997-98 onwards and you'll find
the discussions - I took part in some of them, even.

rct.marketplace is immediately adjacent to this group in the Google
groups list. Its name does give a *bit* of a clue.

From
http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir...faq/part1.html

NAME: rec.crafts.marketplace
CHARTER: This group will get all the ads for fiber, fabric, crafts
supplies
and so on that otherwise would clutter the other rec.crafts
groups.
This should preferably be restricted to individuals or very
small companies who really can't afford other advertising.

NAME: rec.crafts.textiles.marketplace
CHARTER: This group is for selling, buying, trading, and "jobs
offered/sought"
postings related to textiles and any of the textile arts.
Announcements of textile and textile arts business's web pages
are also
welcome. Individual, one-time transactions are welcome in this
group,
as are commercial advertisements.

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