(...) 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)
(...) 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)