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Re: Attack of the star wars sales :)
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Date: 
Fri, 26 Apr 2002 15:36:21 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Larry Pieniazek writes:
In lugnet.loc.au, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
Oops...sorry about that :)

Actually, I've used a similar approach to what I've seen done in the past
for sales at TARGET, KMART, and private sales: from US posters about US only
sales. [though they don't have the courtesy to also post to .loc.us.].

I thought I'd do it this way for a couple of reasons...to show those who do
this how annoying it is when the country isn't mentioned,

Wait...

You did this on purpose, not just by accident, but rather to "prove a point"??

Not sure that was a good idea. If you think there is change needed, there
are channels to suggest it, which may be a better approach than deliberatley
doing things the wrong way in order to stir up controversy. IMHO anyway.

For example you could post to admin.suggestions... the market groups
charters are under discussion of revision as it is and this would be a good
time to make such a change.


Well...I have suggested in the past that this should be done...and been
shouted down about it by US posters...This was the only way of getting my
point across that I could find.

and also so those
Ockers who don't look at .loc.au can hear about it.

This is not a good reason. If it were then posting anything to anywhere
would be allowed. And it's not. compartmentalisation means everything has a
place. You may not like that but that's the way it is.

No complaints...though from what I can tell, .market.shopping is the perfect
place for this, and .general seems to be filled with posts that should be in
their specific compartments...

Anyway, according to the following, I don't see any problems with what I did:

lugnet.general– General community discussion of LEGO® sets,... item pricing
and availability, etc. ...

lugnet.market.shopping– Retail, mail-order, and online shopping:
information, ...

If you'd rather have the country mentioned, I suggest getting the
marketplace rules changed so sale details have to mention the country they
apply to, or if no country given, they MUST be open internationally.

Not a bad suggestion (as a guideline, not sure it's enforcable as a rule but
maybe??). Hence XFUT admin.suggestions...


WELL...
http://news.lugnet.com/loc/au/?n=594
http://news.lugnet.com/loc/au/?n=537
http://news.lugnet.com/loc/au/?n=503
http://news.lugnet.com/loc/au/?n=491

[It's 1:35 AM, so I'm tired and may have made a mistake...but I believe
these posts, in which Todd participated in the thread, should have led to
something of the sort.]

Benjamin Whytcross



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(...) I'm not sure it would work, though. I mean, it has a very satisfying "tweak" quality, which I appreciate, but annoyance generally provokes defiance in those who would be likely to "shout you down." Those among the USians who agree with you (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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