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(...) (URL) This is from over 6 months ago - I think the seed of the idea came from Todd in the first place :) Of course, whether that means Todd thinks it is a good idea *now* or *later*, I'm not too sure.. (...) I have - in fact one of the four (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) This has to come from Todd, we can't self organize this. Further I'm not sure groups are the right way to go, perhaps a mailing list? (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) posts (...) turns (...) certain (...) downloading"). (...) It actually keeps useless RTL headers around. I don't do that much reading of RTL from home though. I think there's something I do every once in a (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Richard Franks wrote in message ... (...) don't (...) depending (...) want (...) that (...) Actually, there seems to be momentum for a panel, or at least Todd has started to agree it might be a good idea. Check out: (URL) and the replies to it. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It isn't going to make me leave, although it does mean that sometimes I don't bother submitting ideas or problems.. which perhaps isn't a bad thing depending on the quality of my ideas ;-) (...) I'd like to help too, that's why I thought (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hmm, what do you do for RTL? Most ISPs don't save more than 2-4 weeks back (typically) for most groups, but if someone was reading it for a long time and had cached headers on, they'd have to set some kind of expiry so that they didn't wind up (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) is (...) Well, part of the problem may be the way I have it configured. OE caches headers, which in general is REAL NICE, but does mean that it takes some time to get into a newsgroup, even if there are just a (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Whether its a bug or not, it is happening. I am having the same problem with Communicator 4.5. I think someone said that it was unchanged in 4.7. The group with the most posts (.general) is the one where I have been most affected. (...) They (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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tossing an idea up in the air... How about: lugnet.market-place....nding-time lugnet.market-place....nding-time This feels a little goofy, but it might address some of the concerns. Ray (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I wish eBay would change the format to something like... "Auction will end at this time *or* at X minutes beyond the last bid (whichever is later)", where X could be anything from 5-30 minutes. This would take most of the steam out of the snipers. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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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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