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Re: Tom, Ebay auction group? What happened?
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Thu, 9 Mar 2000 22:54:57 GMT
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R2 <r2eng@primenet.com> wrote in message news:Fr6EsL.2Du@lugnet.com...
> I started a thread a few weeks ago asking for a separate group for Ebay
> auction announcements. What was the outcome? I thought that there were • some
> good suggestions.
> 
> Eric and I did put a filter for Ebay auctions (in the title) and for our
> favorite auction poster (that usually omits Ebay in their subject • headers).
> This does filter out many (?) announcements, however, since this subject
> came up it appears that more people are omitting Ebay from their subject
> header.

I did not see your post. I do ebay auctions. Is this now the "done thing"?

> We seem to be getting more Ebay announcements that slip through the
> filter.

Mine may be a problem. As I usually link my auctions to a none ebay page
where all my auctions are listed.


> 
> If we aren't going to start a separate Ebay auction group can we at least
> get people to put Ebay in their subject header?

An ebay only group may not be a good idea. But I think there _is_ a clear
split between ebay *type* auctions (ebay, yahoo etc) and private auctions.
This would also help those who do private auctions - as these can be a lot
of work?

Scott A

> Can we then have permission
> to "spam" them with their own message if they continually "forget" to do
> this? (smile)
> 
> Rose
> 
> 



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  Re: Tom, Ebay auction group? What happened?
 
(...) It's been the "done thing", to my knowlege, here and on RTL, ever since I started using LUGNET and RRTL about a year ago and therefore probably before that too. Kevin (27 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Tom, Ebay auction group? What happened?
 
(...) What about: lugnet.market.auction - for *everything and everyone* - as it is now lugnet.market.auction.private - for those running, or wishing to support private auctions exclusively It's a lot easier to move private auctions than it is move (...) (27 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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I started a thread a few weeks ago asking for a separate group for Ebay auction announcements. What was the outcome? I thought that there were some good suggestions. Eric and I did put a filter for Ebay auctions (in the title) and for our favorite (...) (27 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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