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Re: Tips on how to make transactions more successful (was Re: Dopey ebay seller!
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lugnet.org.au, lugnet.market.theory
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Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:55:04 GMT
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Maybe I'm tilting at windmills here...
In lugnet.market.theory, Mark Harrison writes:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm happy to respect Larry's personal wish not to receive a copy of any • response I
> or anyone makes to any post he places on the newsgroups but please DO • continue to
> send me a copy of any replies to my posts on the newsgroups, that includes you
> Larry.
But I am not going to do that either. I post using the web interface. Mailing
a post seems to me to defeat the purpose of a newsgroup, as well as adding a
lot of extra work on my end. There is posting, and there is talking by email.
Mailing lists excepted, the two are conceptually rather different.
So I am going to continue to post without sending copies and I am going to
continue to rail against the practice by others as it confuses me to receive
things in the mail with no indication that they were posted as well.
> In my opinion, it is the polite thing to do and is not a waste of time
It is a waste of *my* time to compensate for your not reading groups every day
by mailing you stuff that you could find yourself. Sometimes I don't get to
read every day either but if I miss something, oh well. If I respond late, oh
well.
Further it is a waste of *my* time to respond to something twice because it
was mailed to me. Am I supposed to go check the newsgroups to see if perhaps,
the little tidbit I just got was also posted? Pah. Life is too short.
> as I might
> miss your replies on the newsgroups or find them too late to
> defend my actions.
Why do you see things as attacks that you need to defend?
++Lar
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