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Re: New Items on The Vault - 9/9/99
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Sat, 11 Sep 1999 02:07:31 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Mike Stanley writes:
> On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 23:11:41 GMT, "Naji Norder"
> <n.norder@computer.org> wrote:
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> > But why put put both in the same newsgroup? Having a newsgroup hierarchy
> > allows these two types of messages to be separated from each other. Someone
> > using mindstorms might not care about Duplo, so those two are separated.
> > Someone who cares about "TRU sales in my town" might not care about stores
> > posting their own overpriced merchandise ads, so those should be separated.
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> I don't know that I totally disagree with you (I'm certainly not
> taking "another side" against which you would need to defend yourself)
> but at this point in time I don't see what the big deal is.
Well, the occasional porno post to rtl isn't a big deal either. I don't have
to see them in pine, and I just delete them and they go away. That doesn't
mean that don't bother me.
> It seems like one or two people who maybe weren't involved in the
> original discussions about what would be going on in the market groups
> got their panties in a wad over some posts they didn't want to see in
> a particular group, suggested/told/encouraged/asked whatever the
> person involved to move them, and then at some point asked Todd to
> back them up.
I'm terribly sorry that I didn't follow rtl when Lugnet was being set up.
However, if Lugnet does not and will not adapt to the "newer" people who use
it, then, like anything else inflexible, it will die. You and Todd and the
original members can decide now that it's not a problem. Later, when more
people advertise, it might still be tolerable. Eventually, the people who's
opinions are ignored might want to set up a listserve to provide "deals"
without the ads. I think something like this would be silly, but it is
logically forseeable.
> End of issue, imo.
Then I won't reply to the rest of your discussion.
> Todd will probably whip out his magic URLs with the original threads,
> but I think it was pretty clear that in the original discussions it
> was known/thought/assumed that _stores_ or store-like entities would
> post to .shopping. I could post that TRU is running a sale, or
> someone who runs a construction toy store could post that they are
> running a sale - no real difference.
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> Eventually, it will be a Good Thing if commercial entities feel free
> to post things to appropriate groups here, don't you think?
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> > You're the one who told me I should subscribe to .shopping so I wouldn't keep
> > missing sales. :-)
>
> Really? Well, it must have made sense at the time. What's the
> difference between you seeing Joe Bloe post that Wal-Mart appears to
> be running a big sale or Joe Storeowner posting that his website is
> open for business with a nice sale?
> The parts you want and nothing else?
> http://jaba.dtrh.com/ - Just Another Brick Auction
> Why pay eBay? Run your own LEGO auctions for free!
> http://www.guarded-inn.com/bricks/
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| (...) I don't know that I totally disagree with you (I'm certainly not taking "another side" against which you would need to defend yourself) but at this point in time I don't see what the big deal is. It seems like one or two people who maybe (...) (25 years ago, 11-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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