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Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Mon, 5 Mar 2001 17:20:29 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.nntp, Ben Cox> writes:
> > > * Delete lugnet.market.auction and lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade and replace
> > > these with lugnet.market.forsale, lugnet.market.wanted, and • lugnet.market
> > > .swap? Why or why not?
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> > If you listed some sets you have for sale, and then put "willing to sell or
> > trade", would that go in .forsale or .swap?
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> Ah yes, more confusion. Excellent question. If there were a good,
> standard, intuitive word for "I want to get rid of this," then I think that
> could certainly stand to do double duty for both .forsale and .swap. I'd
> hate to see excessive crossposting between the two (which I think could
> happen routinely and no one would be technically in the wrong for it) and
> I'd hate even more to see someone chastised for doing it.
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> .market.unwanted doesn't exactly have a catchy tune, does it? :-)
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> I'm looking for a pair of words that mean essentially:
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> * incoming / wanted / I want to acquire this
> * outgoing / for sale / for trade / I want to or would part with this
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> --Todd
How about supply and demand ?
Software geek/MBA
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| (...) Ah yes, more confusion. Excellent question. If there were a good, standard, intuitive word for "I want to get rid of this," then I think that could certainly stand to do double duty for both .forsale and .swap. I'd hate to see excessive (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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