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Re: Sale at The Vault this week!
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lugnet.admin.terms
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Thu, 18 Apr 2002 05:41:05 GMT
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Kevin Salm writes:
> XFUT: lugnet.admin.terms
> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Jon Palmer writes:
> > Hey Matthew. It'd be great if you could keep posts of this nature in
> > .market.buy.sell-trade in the future.
> > .market.shopping is for shopping reports and so on.
> >
> > Thanks, and good luck on your sales.
> > -Jon
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> Hi Jon. According to the charter for .market.shopping [1] these types of
> announcemnts are allowed and should not be problematic. Here is exactly how
> the charter for .shopping reads:
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> ++CHARTER/PURPOSE:
> ++lugnet.market.shopping (group):
> Retail, mail-order, and online shopping: information, discussions,
> experiences, analysis; FOTW's (Find of the Week), sales, promotions,
> coupon offers; LEGO Shop-At-Home Service (phone/flyer specials,
> availability, etc.); liquidation outlets, second-hand stores, garage
> sale tips, etc.
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> A strict interpretation of this charter does not disallow this type of post.
> Matt's post is a sale announcement for online shopping which is clearly
> permitted via the charter.
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> If the reason this type of post is considered offensive is because it is
> posted directly by the vendor, then the charter may need to be adjusted
> to reflect this. The charter does not now prohibit posts by vendors.
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> IN FACT, one such vendor in particular has been instructed to post to
> .shopping only and not to b-s-t. That vendor is Emmanuel Fouquet of
> DYA-shopping.com One discussion on this is here -->
> http://news.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=5389
> This would appear to validate the argument that messages posted directly
> by the vendors belong in .shopping. {I guess this means that if Target
> and WalMart wanted to post Lego sales, they should do so in .shopping}
I have just done a bit more digging and found that Todd Lehman spelled out the
usage of .shopping by vendors and The Vault in particular -->
http://news.lugnet.com/market/shopping/?n=718
A few messages later, Frank Filz gives his insight as to the distinction
between .b-s-t and .shopping -- worth reading.
Here is Todd Lehman's take on posts by DYA -->
http://news.lugnet.com/market/buy-sell-trade/?n=4994
__Kevin Salm__
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| I stand corrected and apologize. I should have done some research on this. -Jon -- | The Galactic Shipyard - (URL) My Lego Creations - (URL) Attack of the Bricks - (URL) Salm" <kdsalm@dreamscape.com> wrote in message news:Gur14H.CwM@lugnet.com... (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.terms)
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