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Re: Brickbay Status
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lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
Date: 
Mon, 25 Jun 2001 20:59:38 GMT
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That would defeat the purpose of the Wanted emails, unless it only sent them out
to everyone at specific times of the day.

There have been too many times where I've gone to order part(s) from a Wanted
email not 5 minutes after getting the email, and the part(s) are gone.

Steve Bliss wrote:

Besides moving to a new ISP (and agreeing to a contract more in line with
current BrickBay traffic), you could try switching the 'want notice' emails
to a digest mode -- include several notices in a single email.  Often, when
I get one notice, I'll get several.  I could deal with a small delay in
transmission, to get a single message instead of multiples.

Steve

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(...) I'd assume most opportunistic shoppers are using the Wanted messages, so if the mail is sent to everyone at (about) the same time, there's little difference that way. But if someone is browsing/searching the website, and happens across the (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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(...) I don't know the exact figures involved, but it's possible that the 'abuse' is perceived spamming. If you've got a lot of mail going to individual ISPs/mail systems, it's possible you're exceeding the set limit each ISP allows from an (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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