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Re: Suggested Change in Charter for ALL Lugnet Theme Groups.
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Wed, 8 Mar 2000 22:10:17 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Steve Bliss writes:
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.

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



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