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Re: Suggested Change in Charter for ALL Lugnet Theme Groups.
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Tue, 7 Mar 2000 23:14:46 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Shiri Dori writes:
> > No it doesn't. But meanwhile 11 people have participated in this thread.
> > Except for you, Scott, who came up with the idea, not one person is in favor
> > for it.
> > Sure, 10 people don't represent the whole community. But show me one other
> > person that, as a buyer, agrees to this. Just one. That might not change my
> > mind completely, but surely soften my opinion that there is no place for • this
> > type of posts in theme groups.
>
> Actually, it's still a bad idea even if 90% (or 98%) of people wanted it,
> because it would alienate the last 10% (or 2%). That's not what kind of
> ship we're sailing here. The theme discussion groups are for discussions,
> not commerce. Nobody is alienated by requiring auction spam to be limited
> to .market.auction.
Actually, I suspect it has aliented or could alienate some people (a few names
pop to mind(1)), but I would posit that those people are for the most part
interested in bang for their buck, and not in discussion, so would generally
lower the value of Lugnet.
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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1:I'll send them to Todd in e-mail if he asks, but that's it. Mostly because
its my opinion, highly subjective, and probably derogatory.
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