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Subject: 
.market.auction & crossposting
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Sun, 12 Dec 1999 13:15:27 GMT
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I'd like to improve the server's ability to automatically enforce the
"no-auctions outside of auction groups" rule.  Obviously the server can
never do a foolproof job at this, but I think it can do a bit better than
what it is doing currently, which is nothing.

If .market.auction required that posts to it were not crossposted with any
other groups, that would help.  But I've seen places where a discussion
migrated from .market.auction to .market.theory -- so it really shouldn't
prevent crossposting to -all- other groups.

Which groups would make sense to allow into the exceptions list?  I'm
thinkin' a pretty skinny list:

   .market.theory
   .admin.general

--Todd



Message has 6 Replies:
  Re: .market.auction & crossposting
 
Can we also do something about auction and e-bay? Maybe market.auction and market.auction.e-bay? Just a suggestion.... Eric Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: .market.auction & crossposting
 
(...) What about applying the rule to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade as well? Julie (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: .market.auction & crossposting
 
(...) I think this is a bad idea and the post I just did to market.auction is a prime example of why. At least *I* think it is. It is about an auction, but it's far more significant (at least I think it is) as something new in our little world than (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: .market.auction & crossposting
 
Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) Advertising an auction is advertising an auction no matter how you try to justify a posting outside auctions. I would love to see this change, above, occur. Rose (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: .market.auction & crossposting
 
(...) Hmm. (hops across the fence for a second) This seems a bit like over-policing. There haven't been very many violations of the T&C in this area that I've noticed lately, so it is probably not necessary. I might be wrong, though - there's a lot (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: .market.auction & crossposting
 
Can messages with "FA:" at the start not just be filtered out. I think this would stop 50% of offenders. Scott A (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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