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This thread seems to have engendered a lot of discussion. Not all of it is for the long term good of the community, I fear, which is regrettable. I'm hopeful that this post might slow some of it down. I have asked Dan privately to be reinstated. (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.off-topic.debate) !!
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(...) I'm not all that good at explaining insanity, but I've been known to state the obvious facts of a situation pretty clearly. Bricklink is a business. If you don't like the way a business operates, do not use that service anymore. If the whole (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Attention all RSS geeks!
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(...) I've become convinced that Atom might be a better solution. If only because it has better mechanisms to ensure that entries are identified uniquely, and support for meta information about authors, etc. (...) If we're using RSS, using a custom (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.org)
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| | Re: suspended Bricklink shops
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(...) But then the buyer has the risk of buying/ordering a service which is not available? In theory, I suppose the system could be set to offer no more than X sales per time-period or offer customers an indication of the estimated waiting time(?). (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: suspended Bricklink shops
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(...) You could argue that -- it may become undesireable to list a service with infinite quantity if the service proves too popular ... I think that's best left up to the user, though. It would be a neat feature -- and I at least don;t it would skew (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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