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Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
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Date: 
Mon, 5 Mar 2001 15:19:43 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote in message <3aa34df1.136496190@lugnet.com>...
> There was a thread a couple months ago about possibly reorganizing the
> .market area.  I really was serious about that and feel we need to attack
> this again.  My current thoughts are along the lines of blowing away the
> two groups .market.auction and .market.buy-sell-trade, and creating in
> their place the three groups .market.forsale, .market.wanted, and
> .market.swap.

I wish you would expand sale to two groups, Ebay and Non-Ebay.

> 
> I'd also like to modify the Terms of Use Agreement (specifically in the
> Discussion Group Terms and Conditions area) to be much more clear on flogs.
> 
> If we can rearrange the .market area so as to render the issue of "what is
> and is not an auction?" a moot issue, all we have to do is define "what is
> and is not a flog?" and define where it is and isn't appropriate.

How about having a definition that would exclude "for profit" posts. This
way if you found a local sale or wanted to pick up sets (at cost) for people
they could be posted. If I wanted to make money off the endeavor then they
would not be allowed.

Rose



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  Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
 
r2 wrote in message ... (...) people (...) This statement is in reference to posts in theme groups. Rose (26 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
  Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
 
(...) Definitely open to that idea. (...) But is it possible ever to know whether someone actually made a profit or not? --Todd (26 years ago, 18-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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  Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
 
I'd like to kick off a discussion about the current state of the newsgroup structure here -- missing groups, unnecessary, groups, annoyingly or confusingly named groups, etc. The goal of this discussion is to come away with a list of practical (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.admin.terms, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.debate) !! 

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