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Re: New group suggestion
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Date: 
Mon, 21 Feb 2000 18:41:13 GMT
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rsanders@NOMORESPAMsvic.net
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Todd Lehman wrote:
<snip>
...and more would all fit in.  However, a group named .sales would kinda
exclude "hot news" of items which weren't necessarily on sale but were
extremely difficult to find in stores.

Another example would be my post about the stack of Belville 5870s I
found <http://www.lugnet.com/market/buy-sell-trade/?n=4437>. I put it in
market.b-s-t because I was pretty sure that I would be selling them. I
believe that this one would meet the 'extremely difficult to find' test.
What would contitute a easy to understand test of this ?  Poosible
factors are: age, how many times it has been offered in the last N
months, etc. Would silver buckets qualify at this point ?

Ray
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  Re: New group suggestion
 
(...) Hmm, that's a very interesting example -- totally perfect for .buy-sell-trade as is, but (if there were a .shopping.hot group or somesuch) possibly borderline between that and .b-s-t (although .b-s-t would still certainly be perfectly fine). (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: New group suggestion
 
(...) Hmm, the rationale being what? (Not disagreeing, just unclear on the motivation behind it.) To increase (encourage) more FOTW posts? To make FOTW's easier to find? To make FOTW's come and find you (by subscribing to the group via e-mail?) I'm (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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