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Re: .market.auction & crossposting
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 12 Dec 1999 20:53:02 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> Which groups would make sense to allow into the exceptions list? I'm
> thinkin' a pretty skinny list:
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> .market.theory
> .admin.general
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 of area I don't cover, so
if there's been 47 auction announcements in lugnet.space and lugnet.duplo
recently, then ya, it's probably called for.
(returns to usual side of fence)
Anything which keeps auction announcements in .auction is good.
How's that for blatant two-facedness? :)
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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| (...) I don't think it's neccessarily necessary either, but it would save time & hassle & worry. Anything that the server itself can to do help is something that a human doesn't have to do. For example, it's not necessarily *necessary* that the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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