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Re: Apology for my email by Kieran Brady
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lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.space
Date: 
Fri, 12 May 2000 13:22:27 GMT
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message
news:FuG6wB.KH@lugnet.com...
In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Kieran Brady writes:

I am not a retailer, I am not out to make a quick buck, I just
wanted to help....
God knows, most of us spend more than we should on Lego :-) - if • there's
anything going a bit cheaper than normal, I myself am usually 'up for • it',
and I welcome any solicitations through newsgroups or
direct email that concerns good deals on Lego sets that otherwise I • might
never have access to buying.
If I don't want to buy, I just trash it (the email)(but keep the • sender's
address - who knows what he/she might find for us next month?)

Yet another argument for an "opt in" list.

I'd gladly receive targeted, brief, occasional mail (NOT auction updates
unless i request them, mind you, but announcements of upcoming auctions,
sales, etc) from any responsible LEGO sellers that think their wares might • be
of interest to me. I bet there are a lot of people who feel the same way. • I
hesitate to suggest posting a list of email addresses on a web page, • that's not
secure enough, it's just asking to be harvested by a trolling spambot.

Anyone out there bored and clever enough to write a little doohickey that • lets
one register interest to a list of addresses and will forward mail on to • that
list after collecting the real address of the forwarder and checking to • see
that it is real (perhaps by mailing out a confirmation code that has to be • used
when one is ready to mail the real thing) ??

It's not high priority enough to get Todd to do right now I don't suspect, • but
eventually it belongs here, I reckon.


Would setting up a group called l.m.auction.announce and then subscibing by
e-mail not do the same thing?

Scott A



Mhmm... I bet using eGroups to set up a mailing list that anyone can mail • to,
but that the name of isn't known publicly so it doesn't appear in their • public
groups list may well serve almost the same purpose and be less development
effort.

If this (or my first suggestion) was done I suspect someone could add info • on
it to the bst homepage and then sellers would be able to use it. If it • existed,
at THAT point all the fire and brimstone some people are throwing around • is
justifiable. (well it is now, too, really, I guess.)

++Lar



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  Re: Apology for my email by Kieran Brady
 
(...) Yet another argument for an "opt in" list. I'd gladly receive targeted, brief, occasional mail (NOT auction updates unless i request them, mind you, but announcements of upcoming auctions, sales, etc) from any responsible LEGO sellers that (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.space)

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