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Subject: 
Re: Suggested Change in Charter for ALL Lugnet Theme Groups.
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Date: 
Wed, 8 Mar 2000 19:33:08 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote:

In lugnet.admin.general, Scott Arthur writes:
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.

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.

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 to filter auction-posts out of
the general discussion messages.

Steve



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  Re: Suggested Change in Charter for ALL Lugnet Theme Groups.
 
(...) 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.
 
(...) 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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