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| (...) And BrickShelf announcements go in lugnet.market.brickshops ONLY... right? --Bill. (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| (...) I was not aware that BrickShelf was a sales site. Perhaps you meant BrickBay rather than BrickShelf ? Ray (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| (...) That was a freudian slip, no doubt... BrickShelf (the image site) announcements actually go in: (URL) I think what is meant by announcements is when KEVIN tells us something significant about the BrickShelf.com site, not just that someone (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| (...) Duh, yes. My bad. --Bill. (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| (...) Hello Larry, As someone who thinks the .announce groups are in good shape, I'm sincerely curious why you believe them to be overused. In fact, if you take a look at the web interface of the newsgroups you'll notice that by volume, the (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| (...) Here's the charter of .announce lugnet.announce– General-interest announcements to the community (breaking news about products, releases, contests, events, and sites, etc.); also, important LUGNET information (new features, services, scheduled (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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| "Allan Bedford" <apotomeREMOVE-THIS@...vista.net> wrote in message news:GpCC0F.EHF@lugnet.com... (...) sincerely (...) way (...) by (...) spark (...) I'll throw in my $0.02 worth on this topic because I agree with Larry (I think I do anyway). I (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) William, I am curious as to what you are basing this statement on? I was under the assumption that .brickshops was created to remove the discussion of the operation of such third party shops as brickbay out of the .BST group. If memory serves (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Troy Cefaratti writes: <snipped Troy's analysis since I agree with it completely> BUT, Troy, you should be aware that this view of the respective charters is not universally held. Another view is that sales (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| Hmm....It seems to be the generally held view considering that the majority of such announcements are still posted in .BST. And the ones that are posted to .Brickshops seem to crossposted to .BST as well. If that is where they go, that is where I'll (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| (...) Consistency: if people aren't permitted to make eBay announcements on BST, why should they be permitted to make BrickBay announcements? After all, both have their own .market.* groups. [snip] (...) Well, the .brickshops group is relatively (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| (...) Consistency: if people aren't permitted to make eBay announcements on BST, why should they be permitted to make BrickBay announcements? After all, both have their own .market.* groups. [snip] (...) Well, the .brickshops group is relatively (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| (...) Because eBay is auctioning, and Brickbay is buying and selling. (...) Yah, but they have different charters. :) I'm not certain what group brickbay store announcements go in, actually. I think .bst is currently more correct, but I suspect (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| (...) Auctions are a form of buying and selling, too. I think the idea behind the various .market groups is to try to keep the people who are focused on making money away from .BST, leaving it more open to be non commercial exchange place between (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| "William R Ward" <bill@wards.net> wrote in message (...) eBay announcements don't belong in .BST because they are auctions, not because they are on eBay. This point, atleast, has been cleared up by Todd many times in the past. As for their own (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| (...) Right. But something being a generally held view, or even something being MY view, doesn't guarantee correctness. (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| (...) Pretty much, though the logic is somewhat twisted to some minds (a "For Best Offer" sale which is worded that way not as "Sealed Bid Auction" belongs in BST). I personally would love to see a re-organization of the market hierarchy. I would (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.theory)
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| (...) I would phrase that differently: eBay announcements don't belong in .BST because there is a special .auctions group for them. By the same logic, BrickBay announcements don't belong in .BST because there is a special .brickshops group for (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| (...) Just what posts belong in .brickshops has been discussed before with no official conclusion: (URL) way I, and some others, interpret the charter of .brickshops is that it is for discusion of brickshops (*mentioned* in the charter) and not for (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.terms)
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