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Re: New group suggestion
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 21 Feb 2000 20:03:18 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Ray Sanders writes:
> 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.
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> 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.
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).
Perhaps there are two classes (types) of 'hot' items:
1) Those which the poster is willing to buy and ship to people, acting as a
sort of intermediary. (The Belville 5870s example above fits this.)
2) Those which the post is simply noting the existence of, and the poster is
not willing to act as an intermediary. (Nationwide sales or S@H specials
or LEGO Outlet lists fit this.)
If that's the case (that there are two main classes of 'hot' items), then
this would imply a group lugnet.market.shopping.xyz whereby the headers were
set respecively to:
1) Newsgroups: lugnet.market.shopping.xyz[,lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade]
Followup-To: lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
2) Newsgroups: lugnet.market.shopping.xyz[,lugnet.market.shopping]
Followup-To: lugnet.market.shopping
(Brackets above indicate optional crossposting.)
> 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 ?
I don't know if things are quantifiable objectively (with numbers or anything
else), but one (very subjective) test might be whether or not people would
say "hoobaby!" or "hurumph." (Maybe some kind of piranha metric, I dunno.)
--Todd
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| Todd Lehman wrote: <snip> (...) Another example would be my post about the stack of Belville 5870s I found (URL). 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 (...) (24 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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