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Re: New subgroup for .org.it.itlug
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 9 Jan 2004 09:26:10 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Mario Ferrari wrote:
> > Hi all
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> > I know that LUGNET is pretty much rigid about where buy-sell-trade announcements
> > can be posted, and I totally agree with this policy.
> >
> > However, ItLUG would like to have its own commercial subgroup, something like
> > lugnet.org.it.itlug.market. The resons for this request is that many of our
> > members don't speak English, thus they are not able to post in the .market
> > hierarchy and couldn't handle the details of a transaction in English. Another
> > reason is that frequently our members are open to buy or sell only to people
> > living in Italy, this because they are not prepared or don't want to manage
> > int'l payments.
> >
> > Is this possible?
>
> I believe it is possible, similar things have been done before. Todd has to do
> the setup.
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> An alternative, which I think the Aussies pursued, was to get the charter for
> their group changed to allow trade talk.
That would work. However, a sub ng would help in keeping the trade posts
separated from the rest of our traffic. The benefit is that those not interested
in the trades can easily ignore them, and also that the annoucements have better
visibility in the dedicated ng without being mixed with many different posts.
Mario
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| (...) I believe it is possible, similar things have been done before. Todd has to do the setup. An alternative, which I think the Aussies pursued, was to get the charter for their group changed to allow trade talk. ++Lar (21 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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