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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Lawrence Wilkes writes:
> > Or is this post sufficient?
> >
> > Several of us here in the UK would like a UK specific buy-sell-trade group.
> > The current market group is international and we would like to separate out
> > our buy-sell-trades when we want to only deal within the UK.
> >
> > So our request would be for a lugnet.loc.uk.buy-sell-trade newsgroup.
> >
> > What happens now?
>
> The lugnet.loc.* hierarchy of groups is for locations -- countries, nations,
> states, counties, cities, towns, boroughs, etc. So it would need to go
> somewhere in the lugnet.market.* group hierarchy (and I don't know where yet)
> or, alternatively, if you have an official UKLUG now (this is the case,
> isn't it?)
Yes. Well. In name only(?). The last time I can remember it mentioned, we
could not agreee on what "UK" meant.
> then you could do lugnet.org.uk.uklug and do whatever market
> stuff you want there (even auctions).
>
> But if all you want is buying, selling, and trading (without auctions),
> there's nothing that says you can't do that in the current lugnet.loc.uk
> group or any of its subgroups, so long as the posts are related to the area
> you're posting in. (For example, U.S. people shouldn't post about their
> worldwide sale in lugnet.loc.uk, but someone in the UK wanting to sell or
> trade specifically to someone else in the UK can certainly feel free to
> do so.)
Yes, this pretty much happens already. It is just noise though really.
Scott A
>
> --Todd
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