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| | | (...) While a dedicated eBay newsgroup would seem nausiating to those who despise eBay (myself included), I can certainly see how people might find it useful. Yet I'm not sure what the real gain would be, because: On the one hand, if there were a (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Ebay auction Group —Rose Regner
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| | | | | Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) This may be the best solution, short of a new newsgroup! Eric (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Ebay auction Group —Julie Krenz
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| | | | | (...) I like this idea. Most regular ebay sellers already do this. It shouldn't be too hard to get the rest of the regular ebay sellers to comply to this rule.Getting the occasional ebay posters to do it will be more of a challenge to enforce and (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Ebay auction Group —Rose Regner
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| | | | | | Julie Krenz wrote in message ... (...) But on the other hand, creating a new .ebay group and requiring that eBay (...) and (...) think (...) way (...) forget (...) be (...) challenge (...) I do believe that this may be a hassle to enforce. If we (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Ebay auction Group —Ray Sanders
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| | | | | | tossing an idea up in the air... How about: lugnet.market-place....nding-time lugnet.market-place....nding-time This feels a little goofy, but it might address some of the concerns. Ray (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Ebay auction Group —Frank Filz
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| | | | | The reason I'd like to see a separate eBay group is that I am potentially interested in seeing eBay posts, so I don't want a filter which automatically chucks them, but I want to have them sort of all in one place so I can ignore them, except when (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Ebay auction Group —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Hmm, that sounds like a client newsreader bug. It shouldn't be any slower with a well-written newsreader, whether there are 100 messages or 100,000 messages. (...) Well, at some point, I'll have to start archiving the old messages out of the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Ebay auction Group —Ray Sanders
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| | | | | | | (...) Whether its a bug or not, it is happening. I am having the same problem with Communicator 4.5. I think someone said that it was unchanged in 4.7. The group with the most posts (.general) is the one where I have been most affected. (...) They (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Ebay auction Group —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) is (...) Well, part of the problem may be the way I have it configured. OE caches headers, which in general is REAL NICE, but does mean that it takes some time to get into a newsgroup, even if there are just a (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Ebay auction Group —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Hmm, what do you do for RTL? Most ISPs don't save more than 2-4 weeks back (typically) for most groups, but if someone was reading it for a long time and had cached headers on, they'd have to set some kind of expiry so that they didn't wind up (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Ebay auction Group —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) posts (...) turns (...) certain (...) downloading"). (...) It actually keeps useless RTL headers around. I don't do that much reading of RTL from home though. I think there's something I do every once in a (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Ebay auction Group —Mike Stanley
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| | | | (...) Speaking of the other hand, I don't see those two as necessarily equal. In the first example, you make a group where eBay auction listings, updates, etc, go. In that example Joe eBay-despiser (or simply Joe "I don't want to deal with a system (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Ebay auction Group —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) Good point. (...) Alternatively, collecting all eBay announcements in one place may *raise* effective exposure. It puts all the eBay announcements in one place, where they are easy to retrieve. Steve (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Ebay auction Group —Mike Stanley
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| | | | (...) Yeah, I try to keep in mind the fact that other people don't get unlimited local calls and inet access like we do... (...) True, true (sorry, got the Bud commercial on the brain). (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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