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Re: No gimmicks, just a free 40 bucks.
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lugnet.market.theory
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Date:
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Thu, 17 Feb 2000 16:45:36 GMT
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > [...]
> > This is NOT a hawk of my auction but if you want to click on URLS (I
> > don't have time to type them in) or read more about it go see my current
> > blue hopper on eBay... (I especially don't have time to retype all the
> > explanatory text)
> >
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=256988280
> > [...]
>
> Hmm, I'm not entirely clear on why the above quoted isn't an auction
> announcement.
I read Larry's message the same way you did, Todd. And I had the same reaction:
"Larry's smarter than that. Why's he posting a disingenuous auction
announcement?" Then I realized the truth. What he typed was:
> This is NOT a hawk of my auction but if you want to click on URLS (I
> don't have time to type them in) or read more about it go see my current
> blue hopper on eBay... (I especially don't have time to retype all the
> explanatory text)
The meaning of this passage (this is provided for non-Larritarians and the
faint-of-belief, not to claim that Larry made a misteak) is:
"If you want more information, there are links to explanations for both services
in my Blue Hopper auction. The auction link is [xxx], the image-based
explanatory links are about halfway down that page."
You probably understood this already, Todd. But it took me a few minutes, and
probably other people as well.
> Not sure how an embedded auction reference (let's call it a "reference"
> rather than an "announcement") of this type is different from a sig-based
> reference, but I think this is a case we ought to clarify one way or the
> other.
I agree with you about clarification, but Larry's intent is pretty clear here
(after the full situation is known). He should have thrown in a few more words
explaining his intent, besides the "this is not an announcement" bit. Because
we all know that electronic messages which say "I am not X" usually *are* X.
Steve
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