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(...) (smile) I'm in that crowd -- but I guess I don't hate eBay per se -- what I despise is fixed-ending-time auctions. --Todd (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hmm, that sounds like a client newsreader bug. It shouldn't be any slower with a well-written newsreader, whether there are 100 messages or 100,000 messages. (...) Well, at some point, I'll have to start archiving the old messages out of the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Julie Krenz wrote in message ... (...) But on the other hand, creating a new .ebay group and requiring that eBay (...) and (...) think (...) way (...) forget (...) be (...) challenge (...) I do believe that this may be a hassle to enforce. If we (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Because the latter is not exercising editorial control. I am not an expert on liability law but you may want to research (and I'm not sure where to send you, exactly) into the different takes that Prodigy (which did exercise editorial control) (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Speaking of the other hand, I don't see those two as necessarily equal. In the first example, you make a group where eBay auction listings, updates, etc, go. In that example Joe eBay-despiser (or simply Joe "I don't want to deal with a system (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Unless this new group were designed to host third-part for-profit auction listings. For-profit meaning the site itself took a cut of the auction proceeds through listing fees, percentages, or both. In that case Yahoo! wouldn't be there, but (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <38AE1C47.71263742@v...er.net>... (...) Well true. But being ToSsed would be just as effective for keeping things in control I think (if someone is ToSsed they will no longer be able to abuse the system). (...) I (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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The reason I'd like to see a separate eBay group is that I am potentially interested in seeing eBay posts, so I don't want a filter which automatically chucks them, but I want to have them sort of all in one place so I can ignore them, except when (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I like this idea. Most regular ebay sellers already do this. It shouldn't be too hard to get the rest of the regular ebay sellers to comply to this rule.Getting the occasional ebay posters to do it will be more of a challenge to enforce and (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) This may be the best solution, short of a new newsgroup! Eric (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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