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Re: FT: Lego 1772 Airport Container Truck MISB
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lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
Date: 
Sat, 28 Dec 2002 05:34:28 GMT
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"William R Ward" <bill@wards.net> wrote in message
news:m2r8c3uisd.fsf@komodo.home.wards.net...
"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> writes:
In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Brendan Coughlin writes:
Hello all!

Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello! (is there an echo in here? • Yes,
there is!!!!!)

You might consider just posting 1 "hello" in your post rather than
six.  (My brain is hurting with the echo of "hello.")

You might consider just posting all 6 of your wanteds in one post rather
than six separate ones, since it appears you are willing to trade toward • teh
same wanteds in each case (I did not check all 6 but did check 2 and • they
seem the same to me)... just set the subject line to include all 6 of • the
set numbers.

Saves on reading etc... hope that helps.

Save on reading?  The subject was clear. Why open up each one?  Mark
as read for each one and carry on.  It's not like there are hundreds of
posts.

(most of what you want are on many an AFOL's wanted list)

Sorry, I think Brendan did it right.  There's nothing wrong with
posting each item separately.  It's easy enough to tell by the subject
whether he's offering something you want or not.

I agree.

And just putting the set numbers in the subject is not good enough -
many people do not know sets by their numbers.  I for one would not
even have read his messages if it didn't have the set *names*.

Again, I agree.

--Bill.




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  Is the norm for multiple .market posts changing?
 
(...) Sorry about that. It made the point though, eh?, and I think it did it much more economically than posting the same suggestion to combine multiple very similar offers into one post as a follow up to all 6 original messages, right? (...) So in (...) (22 years ago, 29-Dec-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: FT: Lego 1772 Airport Container Truck MISB
 
(...) Sorry, I think Brendan did it right. There's nothing wrong with posting each item separately. It's easy enough to tell by the subject whether he's offering something you want or not. And just putting the set numbers in the subject is not good (...) (22 years ago, 27-Dec-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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