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Re: Ebay auction Group
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 19 Feb 2000 20:07:09 GMT
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rsanders@&AntiSpam&svic.net
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tossing an idea up in the air...
How about:
lugnet.market-place.auction.fixed-ending-time
lugnet.market-place.auction.variable-ending-time
This feels a little goofy, but it might address some of the concerns.
Ray
R2 wrote:
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> Julie Krenz wrote in message ...
> > In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: • 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:
> > >
> > > Subject: eBay: 10 new Fabuland auctions starting today
> > > Subject: [ebaY] Metroliner and Club Car - ends 28 Feb
> > > Subject: EBAY - bulk red bricks
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > --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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> I do believe that this may be a hassle to enforce.
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> If we have a separate Ebay listing a "normal" person should be able to
> reason that Ebay announcements belong in this group. Requiring that they put
> Ebay in the heading would be harder to enforce, IMO.
>
> Rose
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