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| | | (...) It would be nice to implement this for all groups that do not explicitly opt for ads. . . (...) Huh? Why make .theory a subgroup of .ads? There's no reason for ads to be posted to theory, except for illustrative purposes. Also, I'd imagine (...) (23 years ago, 20-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | Re: lugnet.market.mess —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) Exactly. However it's sliced, I think there is a need for places to flog, and a need for places to talk about various stores, technologies, theories, etc. .brickshops, to me, is like .theory, .services, and .shipping, a place to talk about (...) (23 years ago, 20-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | Re: lugnet.market.mess —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | | (...) What about: .brickshops.admin .brickshops.theory .brickshops.ads Is this getting too compartmentally dorky? And should .brickshops.theory really be part of .market.theory? Just throwing out ideas.... ROSCO (23 years ago, 20-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | | Re: lugnet.market.mess —Patricia Schempp
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| | | | | | (...) Yes to the too compartmentally dorky. Once upon a time all auction stuff went to auctions and all other LEGO commerce went to buy-sell-trade. Now bricklink has outgrown its boots and needs its own commerce group. Something like brickshops.ads (...) (23 years ago, 21-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | | Re: lugnet.market.mess —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) Except that ads should not be rooted in the same hierarchy as discussion. This raises the same (problem? mistake?) that occurred with announce and announce.moc... web viewing market.brickshops will also show the contents of brickshops.ads My (...) (23 years ago, 21-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | | Re: lugnet.market.mess —Kevin Salm
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| | | | | | (...) Ah, yes...I wanted to mention this point but forgot. This a big reason I am against just adding more newsgroups. If the new groups are further down in the hierarchy than the one you want to read, the subsequent messages will appear. Move ads (...) (23 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | | Re: lugnet.market.mess —William R. Ward
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| | | | | | (...) I fail to see the problem with .announce.moc - the MOC's are a subset of announcements. There is no discussion in .announce. I agree that they should be separate, but I don't think that's a good analogy. (...) I disagree with the idea of (...) (23 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | | Re: lugnet.market.mess —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) .announce.moc was CREATED to keep traffic out of .announce. It basically (due to the technology) fails to do that for web users. Point your browser at .announce and you see announce.moc traffic as well. Simple as that... it fails to keep (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | | Re: lugnet.market.mess —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | (...) I wonder if it's time to change the default. I'm thinking the main place where I would see value is when the subgroups shouldn't really exist in the first place, such as some .loc groups (the way NC works for example, we would actually be (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | | lugnet.announce.moc [was: Re: lugnet.market.mess] —William R. Ward
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| | | | | | (...) I believe the main reason was not so much to avoid that problem, as to keep MOC's from crowding other announcements out of the "top stories" sidebar on the LUGNET home page. I understand that lugnet.announce posts are given automatically (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | | Re: lugnet.announce.moc [was: Re: lugnet.market.mess] —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) While that may or may not be true, it's not the reason I was plumping for it at the time. My reasons were as I outlined, to keep dissonance down. But we digress. If I have X type things and Y type things and X is not a kind of Y and Y is not a (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | Re: lugnet.market.mess —Kevin Wilson
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| | | | | (...) This has been said before, BUT experience says that posting a notice on market.bst of something special in a Bricklink shop, produces sales. So, people are responding to those notices who would not otherwise have known the "something special" (...) (23 years ago, 21-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | Re: lugnet.market.mess —William R. Ward
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| | | | (...) I think for the most part this is already true. (...) That's not what I meant. I am sorry about the ambiguity. Let me rephrase: "Discussions about ebay policies and the like can go in .theory if .auction is made a subgroup of .ads" (...) Yes, (...) (23 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | Re: lugnet.market.mess —Frank Filz
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| | | | (...) Yea, I guess browsing is harder. It's easier with eBay (though perversely, not so easy with German eBay, with US eBay when you look at all LEGO auctions, they are or can be sorted by start date, in German eBay, they are only sorted by ending (...) (23 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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