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Re: Ebay auction Group
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 19 Feb 2000 16:49:35 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Rose Regner writes:
> > [...]
> > My request was just somehow to split the e-bay auctions from others. Because
> > of the sheer volume of e-bay posts, it would make sense to me to add an
> > "market.auction.e-bay" group. Otherwise, we would have a "market.auction"
> > and "market.auction.private". It just isn't very descriptive.
> > [...]
> > I just want a quick way to sift through the LUGNET postings, because I will
> > read about e-bay auctions later when I am on e-bay.
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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:
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> On the one hand, if there were a newsgroup called lugnet.market.auction.ebay,
> then certainly posts of that nature would need to be restricted (somehow!) to
> that group only, since that would be its purpose in the first place, and that
> means there's a right way and a wrong way to make eBay-related auction posts
> (right now there isn't, except for auctions in general).
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> But on the other hand, creating a new .ebay group and requiring that eBay
> posts go there isn't much different from not creating a new .ebay group and
> instead requiring that eBay posts simply contain the word "eBay" in the
> subject line. For example:
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> Subject: eBay: 10 new Fabuland auctions starting today
> Subject: [ebaY] Metroliner and Club Car - ends 28 Feb
> Subject: EBAY - bulk red bricks
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> This way, people wanting to find or ignore eBay posts just set up their
> newsreaders or email filters to select or unselect eBay messages. (I think
> some people even do this now.) This would also mean that there's a right way
> and a wrong way to make eBay-related auction posts, but if someone did forget
> to put "eBay" in the subject line, I think even Netscape's email filter
> supports searching the body of a message for a substring.
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> --Todd
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 hassle to endure.
Julie
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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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| (...) 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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