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    Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Mike Stanley
    Just wondering - should I post them to .announce with followup's set to .general, post to .general, both, or maybe even .buy-sale-trade? (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Todd Lehman
   (...) I'd say .market.buy-sell-trade -- not the .announce group and probably not the .general group -- because the market.* hierarchy was really intended as the place for that sort of thing (selling and things related to selling). Still, the (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Richard Dee
     (...) encourage Well, not entirely. I am in the UK, travel to the States at least 4 times a year, and have found them quite useful, getting families/friends/associates to, on a couple of occasions, order stuff for me. I am going on the 9th of Jan, (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Mike Stanley
     (...) Hrmmm, not so sure it would be pure noise for non-U.S. people. I think the US S@H specials can help to foster the formation of trading partnerships among all the world's Legomaniacs. "Hey, I'm in the UK and I saw this was on special - how (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Todd Lehman
      (...) Well, give it a shot in .announce (for better or for worse) and see what people think. If nobody complains, and a lot of people are happy about it (and I think most people will be), then it's probably the right formula. So how about--? (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
     
          Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Mike Stanley
      (...) Works for me. I'll have to subscribe to lugnet.us so I can be sure to remember the name. :) (...) Doing Good Things is what it's all about. :) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
     
          Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Todd Lehman
      (...) -- whoops, I typo'd -- I mean lugnet.loc.us -- but you'd find that out soon enough. :) --Todd (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Todd Lehman
     (...) "I been tinkin'" about this a lot tonight and want to get it resolved real quick so Mike has a place to post tomorrow morning... As I understand it, there is a UK S@H service as well as the US S@H service. (At least, if the UK SAHS doesn't (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Todd Lehman
      [Crossposted to lugnet.admin.general & lugnet.general, with followups set to lugnet.admin.general] (...) Mike, Suzanne just cautioned me that I might be taking a too-hasty approach here. So for tomorrow morning, just post wherever you think is (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Steve Bliss
      (...) Minor point: you're thinking of a .lsah group, not .lsahs. .lsah would cover all of S@H, .lsahs would be just the specials. (...) How about .lsah.specials? Then at some time a 'real' .lsah group could be created, if there was sufficient need. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
     
          Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Todd Lehman
      (...) I've always equated LSAHS = LEGO Shop At Home Service because of the official name being "Shop At Home Service" as shown on the catalogs that come in themail. (...) Mmm, interesting. What goes in front of .lsah.specials? A (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
     
          Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Mike Stanley
       (...) Just a quick tangent here since we don't have a .lsahs group yet. Are the LC accessories still $1.50 or are you just listing that as an example? (25 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
     
          Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Tom McDonald
       (...) Todd, an idea... IMO, the word "market" says that it's stuff we're selling online, not official retailers, which I'm assuming don't sell here. Even if they did, they could still use market.buy-sell-trade. I guess we're concerned about passing (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
      
           Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Todd Lehman
       (...) Yup -- great! -- that's exactly what it was intended as. (...) Yup -- I agree, that would make a lot of sense (assuming it was done in a friendly and non-spamful way :). (...) Wow, I just looked up "retail" in online Webster's -- it says that (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
      
           Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Tom McDonald
       (...) I've always thought that a retailer sells directly to Joe Gritz even if they slap on the word "wholesale", the meaning of which has been slightly widened these days. I do not consider CostCo to be strictly a wholesaler. In cases like that, (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
      
           Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Todd Lehman
       (...) Oops, yes, thanks -- I meant "_discussions_of_ buying and shopping for primarily-brand-new LEGO sets." What you wrote is cool too -- but I'd like to see it be discussions as well, not just pure information dispersal. --Todd (25 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
     
          Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Steve Bliss
      (...) Oops, sorry. My misunderstanding. (...) Well, that is open to discussion. I don't have a strong opinion on lugnet.market.lsahs.specials or lugnet.shopping.lsahs.specials. (...) Good point. (...) I guess that's what I was suggesting as a (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
     
          Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Todd Lehman
      (...) Deep vs. wide -- do you mean deeper is better than wider? (Is the "Oh, yeah" a point or a counter-point?) I don't have any inherent dislike for deep ng trees as long as the ng names remain: (a) type-able, (b) remember-able, (c) readable, and (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
     
          Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Steve Bliss
      (...) Sometimes. Did someone say "golden mean"? "Oh, yeah" = "I just remembered what I was thinking of when I wrote about it originally." (...) Yes. To all of that. (25 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Larry Pieniazek
     (...) Good-deals?? It's not A word but it is broader, but restrictive enough (I thought of "deals" but that might be taken as a place to describe deals gone bad, etc..) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Todd Lehman
     (...) Let's take the opposite of that, then -- bad deals. People want to talk about bad deals too. Rip-offs and disgusting pricing practices. So what are all the things that people want to talk about in terms of the larger picture of "value (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Wouter van Wageningen
     (...) Why not a lugnet.market.specials ? That could include large discounts at other shops than s@h, etc. ____ |oooo| Cheers, |oooo| Wouter van Wageningen ¯¯¯¯ (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Gary Louie
   (...) I would not like to see posts to the <lugnet.loc.us>, keeping that group free for national discussions (if we ever have any). I much prefer giving these announcements their own unique news group. I would even probably subscribe to the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Mike Stanley
   (...) Hrmmm, interesting. I like it. (25 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Todd Lehman
   (...) Yes, a group can be made to be read-only for everyone except the server administrator and a moderator (or a set of moderators). I've never created a moderated group before, but as far as I can tell, they're fairly easy to set up inside the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Gary Louie
     (...) Yes, this was my intent. I was not suggesting a moderated news group. A moderated news group sounds like it is too much work. (...) Yes, I think it should work this way. Except, I suppose the original message would need to be posted to the new (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Larry Pieniazek
     Todd Lehman wrote: <moderated technical difficulties> This is your server and you have the source. Why do it the conventional way? Instead of mailing the proposed article, save it on the server. Moderator then periodically uses the web interface to (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Todd Lehman
     (...) Mmm, yes -- down the road, this would surely be a cool way to go. Need the other infrastructure stuff there first, though, before something like this, otherwise this detracts from the other path with relatively little gain given current (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials —Mike Stanley
   (...) I've re-read this a few times trying to come up with a lengthy response, but I'm really just too busy and tired right now to try to help make a decision like this. Basically, I'll do what you (collectively if it is to be a group-hashed out (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
 

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