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    Re: Suggested Change in Charter for ALL Lugnet Theme Groups. —Todd Lehman
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: Suggested Change in Charter for ALL Lugnet Theme Groups. —Steve Bliss
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: Suggested Change in Charter for ALL Lugnet Theme Groups. —Todd Lehman
   (...) 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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