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Re: I am looking for inventories of...
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Tue, 17 Oct 2000 02:02:29 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Geoffrey Hyde writes:
So how come I still got replies whenever I DID post questions to that group
a while back?

Probably because people weren't being careful.  The .db.inv group isn't a
discussion group.  Unfortunately, I don't know how to put a mechanism into
place as a rejection filter to reject non-inventory messages.


[...]
Here, read your own charter for that very newsgroup:
http://news.lugnet.com/db/inv/?n=1  Then tell me IF I'm wrong - if I'm
wrong, I'm wrong, but I never had any trouble asking for an inventory in
there before.

I suppose the charter is ambiguous, although what was meant by "data-oriented"
there was "data and not discussion" -- sort of a dumping ground for the data
of inventories -- kinda like a binaries group, only it's text.

--Todd



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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G2Jxo5.EzB@lugnet.com... (...) group (...) Read each one yourself, maybe? <gdr> Seriously, though, I never felt any hostility directed towards me, and perhaps one should put the question to the (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: I am looking for inventories of...
 
(...) Or because we gave up on barking about it. Plus, there is no good place to post inquiries for set inventories right now. Sort of like there not being a good place to post requests for new LDraw parts, so people post their requests to (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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So how come I still got replies whenever I DID post questions to that group a while back? I never got flamed for asking, either. I believe it's not TECHNICALLY illegal to go in there and ASK for a parts inventory, either. Although, if the original (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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