Sammy, it has nothing to do with band width - a.f.w. is not commercial.
However, from your explanation, you are not making a commercial post, simply wanting to unload some books to like-minded people with an interest / passion for wine.
Preface your post (in the subject line with FS (for sale) and ensure what you are offering is "on topic" - i.e. books or mags et on wine appreciation (note - if these books are on the subject of winemaking, then this is not the forum - rather rec.crafts.winemaking) then I am sure that you will receive no complaints for posting.
Interesting. Sammy, I see your post has first been pre-qualified, then validated, and then corrected, by our very own St. Hypocrite. Pay it no heed. He and his Merry Men are just throwing their weight around. You might want to duck.
Of course, it certainly has nothing to do with bandwidth. St. Hypocrite's own "guarded" approval of your post took up more keystrokes than your initial message!
Post *whatever* you want here, but do try to keep it on-topic. If you have something of interest to the group, we'd love to hear about it. I'd like to know what wine stuff you have. Ignore complaints demanding you post to other groups. This list is about "anything related to wine". Not "whine".
It sounds like a perfectly reasonable request, Sammy, so I doubt that it would meet with much objection. Don't worry about the sniping going on in this thread, either: it's just some personal vendettas played out in a public arena.
It's mostly books; 'undreds of 'em. I'll write a list and post it here. I'd like to sell the whole lot in one go, they take up a lot of space and with the birth of my new daughter space is even more precious than ever. Time to read and drink is all but gone, too.
I've got loads of good stuff from the staples like Johnson Atlas to ancient books which give a magical insight into how our Great Grandparents might have been *told* what/ how to drink. And they were!
In a way it's a bit sad for me because I like wine and I used to tenderly research each detail of wines but summink's gotta give :-). Oh! for anyone who feels sad for me; I'll keep a few texts and the wine will still occupy a few cubic feet :-)..... just not the books.
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