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Re: Unsorted lot of over 5800 pcs.
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 23 Jan 2003 19:52:19 GMT
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David Eaton wrote:
> 
> In lugnet.market.auction, Frank Filz writes:
> > In the meantime, I suggest:
> > 
> > - auction announcements, no matter where the auction is held (eBay,
> > BrickLink, Yahoo, by mail, etc.) be posted only in
> > lugnet.market.auctions
> > 
> > - announcements of private sales and trades be posted only in
> > lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, unless they are announcements of BrickLink
> > sales (but not auctions), in which case it seems acceptable to
> > cross-post to lugnet.market.brickshops (but not to cross-post to theme
> > groups).
> 
> Personally, I think the standards have changed for auctions-- it used to be
> (in pre-ebay pre-bricklink days) that people would hold auctions themselves
> and bash newsgroups with repeated auction updates. I think this continuous
> post beating is what encouraged auctions to be in their own area on Lugnet.
> Now that 3rd party auction forums take care of the updates themselves, this
> is *considerably* less of a problem.
> 
> I'd personally suggest a system where auction *annoucements* may go anywhere
> sale posts might go, but auction *updates* are limited to .market.auction.
> (Not that we see many of *those* anymore :)

For the one auction a blue moon, I wouldn't worry about where the
updates go. I'd much rather see a separate place for eBay auctions so
that I can see the personally run auction when a blue moon occurs.

Frank



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  Re: Unsorted lot of over 5800 pcs.
 
(...) Personally, I think the standards have changed for auctions-- it used to be (in pre-ebay pre-bricklink days) that people would hold auctions themselves and bash newsgroups with repeated auction updates. I think this continuous post beating is (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-03, to lugnet.admin.general)

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