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Re: No gimmicks, just a free 40 bucks.
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lugnet.market.theory
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Fri, 18 Feb 2000 01:20:32 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ...
> In lugnet.market.theory, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > [...]
> > Again, that was the fastest way of getting the word out. I'm not sure
> > how I could have done it any faster,
> > [...]
Well, I'm not Larry, but I'll respond anywise...
> First question:
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> I'm not intimately familiar with the services being advertised, so forgive
> my naivete for asking, but wouldn't something such as the following have • been
> faster?--
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> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- • --
> Subject: No gimmicks, just a free 40 bucks.
> Newsgroups: lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
>
> Sign up via ME via both X and paypal and you get 20 from X, 10 from paypal,
> and 10 from me (I rebate 5 of each 10 dollar referral). US only, and act • now
> because X's free money offer apparently expires soon.
>
> X.com sign-up: • https://preview.x.com/new_account.asp?Referrer=lar@voyager.net
> PayPal sign-up: https://secure.paypal.com/auction/pal=lar%40voyager.net
>
> -
> Larry Pieniazek - lpieniazek@mercator.com - http://my.voyager.net/lar
> http://www.mercator.com. Mercator, the e-business transformation company
> fund Lugnet(tm): http://www.ebates.com/ ref: lar, 1/2 $$ to lugnet.
>
> Note: this is a family forum!
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Two thoughts:
- Recall that Larry said he had a window already open with his auction, he
was able to cut and past a URL which was in the title/menu portion of a
window on his screen.
- His auction text has a more complete description of the services than that
given in your sample post.
> Second question:
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> What are your thoughts (pending available time, of course -- no rush) as to
> the example being set by mentioning an active auction as part of such a
> posting, as opposed to an alternative way as shown above?
I think that given the time dependant nature of what was going on, Larry's
post was reasonable, HOWEVER, once an issue was raised, and he had a little
more time (I think he's had a little more time in the evening), he should
have re-posted a more acceptable post, and canceled the original one. This
clears up the problem of future people not being sure what is allowed (and
he can even mention why he re-posted which would settle the issue for anyone
who is currently reading).
> Third question:
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> Do you think a special new group for these types of things (and also for
> factoring services, etc.) called lugnet.market.services (or somesuch) would
> be the best way to help people share targeted information like this?
Most definitely (of course you already know my feelings here...). Too add
more to this though, I think that in such a group it would be a lot more
acceptable to point to an auction description which happened to have a very
good description of the service you are pointing out. I would tend to think
that people who are uptight about hearing about auctions aren't going to be
reading the services group very much. Also, it doesn't set a dangerous
precedent of auctions being allowed in just any old group (the charter of
the new group could be very specific about how auctions can be mentioned).
Frank
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| (...) Ya, I grokked that. :) So it's significantly quicker to: 1. Be on the already-open window with the auction 2. Click on the browser's Location box 3. Ctrl-C to copy URL 4. Alt-Tab to edit-post window 5. Ctrl-V to paste URL than to: 1. Be on the (...) (27 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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