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Re: YOUR WANT LIST
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 19:15:30 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Miller writes:
Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote:
Todd - is it time to set a policy for how these types of solicitations
should be handled, or do the existing rules sufficiently cover these
cases in a clear and obvious manner?

I agree with Matthew that it's covered already by what he highlighted below...


It's pretty clearly a violation:

  10. Post or re-post a message excessively, especially unsolicited
      advertisements, even if they are directly or indirectly related
      to LEGO toys.

"excessively" is of course open to interpretation, but it _does_ seem
pretty clear in this case.

Y'd think people would know better these days!

I could use a volunteer who speaks French fluently (or least better than
I do, which is not at all) to help Emmanuel figure out the crossposting
thing, and also help him pick the best groups (spamming the theme groups
isn't probably the best idea).  I think I've also seen a lot of DYA
messages posted to multiple .market groups which should've been either
crossposted or contained to one group.  I seem to remember writing to
Emmanuel about this a few months ago, but I'm not sure if I'm remembering
that correctly or if my language was unclear...

--Todd



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(...) He has done it again. It seems to me that this person is receiving "special treatment". How else could he spam all the theme groups and get away with it and even do it one more time? I don't mean to sound harsh, but I think that if we allow (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) It's pretty clearly a violation: 10. Post or re-post a message excessively, especially unsolicited advertisements, even if they are directly or indirectly related to LEGO toys. "excessively" is of course open to interpretation, but it _does_ (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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