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Subject:	Re: Suggested Change in Charter for ALL Lugnet Theme Groups.
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general
Date:	Tue, 7 Mar 2000 15:31:33 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Steve Bliss writes: > In lugnet.admin.council, Scott A wrote: > > [clipped a bunch of stuff about allowing auction announcements in a > large number of groups, thus enouraging auctioneers to spam lugnet, and > causing members of .council extra work at no benefit to themselves or > the community.] One man's spam is another's luncheon meat, and yet another's chopped pork and ham. > > > No "knee jerk" reactions please. > > Well, you asked nicely, but I've got to go with my knee-jerk: > > This would be a Bad Thing. Quite possibly a Very Bad Thing. On what basis? > > Steve

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		Re: Suggested Change in Charter for ALL Lugnet Theme Groups.
(...) <snip> (...) Well I wanted to post a response to your origional message as soon as I saw it but I decided to wait and see the responses it got. Anyway I agree totally with Steve here. Speaking as someone who only rarely participates in (...) (27 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

		Re: Suggested Change in Charter for ALL Lugnet Theme Groups.
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Scott A (<Fr25sL.L2o@lugnet.com>) wrote at 15:31:33 (...) There are some people who Really Don't Like Auctions. They can't be filtered out from the web interface, which is used by a lot of people. To put auction announcements in, (...) (27 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

		Re: Suggested Change in Charter for ALL Lugnet Theme Groups.
(...) Great. Go to RTL, and spam your lunch meat all you want. (...) Having a simple, clear rule -- "auction posts belong in lugnet.market.auction" -- is much better (for everyone!) than requiring sellers to follow a bunch of regulations about how (...) (27 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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		Re: Suggested Change in Charter for ALL Lugnet Theme Groups.
In lugnet.admin.council, Scott A wrote: [clipped a bunch of stuff about allowing auction announcements in a large number of groups, thus enouraging auctioneers to spam lugnet, and causing members of .council extra work at no benefit to themselves or (...) (27 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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