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| | | (...) One man's spam is another's luncheon meat, and yet another's chopped pork and ham. (...) On what basis? (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Suggested Change in Charter for ALL Lugnet Theme Groups. —Eric Kingsley
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| | | | | (...) <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 (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Suggested Change in Charter for ALL Lugnet Theme Groups. —Tony Priestman
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| | | | | 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, (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Suggested Change in Charter for ALL Lugnet Theme Groups. —Scott Arthur
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| | | | | | (...) Yes, but as the title will say it all - it will be plain to see what the post is. Furthermore, I'm sure a prefernces switch could be invented for them. (...) Private auctions are not all that common. 99% of auctions go straight to ebay. Scott (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Suggested Change in Charter for ALL Lugnet Theme Groups. —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Try not to be so naive (no offense intended). A title which has the word "auction" in it -- in a non-market discussion group -- is disturbing and jarring to people; it's something to dread, not something simply to skip over. (...) Again, try (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Suggested Change in Charter for ALL Lugnet Theme Groups. —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) Also, (some) sellers posting to theme-discussion groups would *avoid* putting a clear label on their auction announcements, because they would then avoid auction-filters, and get more people to read their spam-posts. So it would *not* be easy (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Suggested Change in Charter for ALL Lugnet Theme Groups. —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Ahh, yes! That would happen too -- definitely. I think that even happened in RTL once when it was sorta agreed upon at one point that people should put "[auction]" in the title of their posts. It sure didn't work! :) --Todd (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Suggested Change in Charter for ALL Lugnet Theme Groups. —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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