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Re: Proper place to post US S@H Phone Specials
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 31 Dec 1998 00:54:32 GMT
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CJC@NEWSGUY.saynotospamCOM
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> Still, the advantage of the .announce group is that people could get it via
> e-mail nicely (.announce is the second-most popular group to get via e-mail
> for those who do the News-by-Mail thing). But a disadvantage of .announce
> is that it's going to be pure noise for non-U.S. people and it may encourage
> additional market noise in the .announce group.
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 about I trade
you $xx.xx worth of these UK-only sets for an equivalent amount of
this set on special?"
> Maybe it deserves its own newsgroup -- lugnet.market.lsahs -- whereby people
> could easily receive it via e-mail each Monday morning.
Hrmmm..... maybe, maybe.
>
> So, I'd suggest either
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> Newsgroups: lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade,lugnet.loc.us
> Followup-To: lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
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> or
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> Newsgroups: lugnet.market.lsahs,lugnet.loc.us
> Followup-To: lugnet.market.lsahs
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> Thoughts on that? Other options?
I think followup-to: lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade is a sure thing.
Not so sure a new group needs to be formed, and not convinced
.announce would be such a noisy thing.
--
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http://www.lugnet.com/lsahs/
800-835-4386 (S@H USA) / 800-267-5346 ext 222 (S@H Canada)
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| (...) 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
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| (...) "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 (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) 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)
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