W1EOF wrote:
Paul -
SELLER - It's way too much work for guys like Don. He can send to multiple
lists using one email. With websites he'd need to login to each one, copy &
paste, etc, etc, etc.
I guess that depends on how important Don's sales are to him. Sure, I'd
hate to see 'em go to e-bay, as well. But the point is, it's harder to
go to amfone.net and post messages for the very reason you're stating.
If, instead, there was a sister list for the AM Reflector for 'sales',
then hey - those that want to receive the sales ads can subscribe to
-that- list, just as easily as they subscribed to this one, and Don and
Brian Carling and whoever else can post all the sales ads they want in
-that- area. He could even post here saying "there's a list on
xxx-Reflector" here, if he so desires. But all conversation and
negotiations would, of course, take place either there, or off-list.
I wish it was the mere fact that Don is a 'good guy', Mark, that made
everything ok. The truth is, this is only August and this is the 4th
time that we have had to have this conversation, this year *alone*.
Compromises have been attempted. Policies were changed. Polls were
taken and votes were tallied and we -always- seem to revert back to the
same problem: people don't pay attention. *Something* drastic has to
be done, if for no other reason, than to snap someone's neck around and
cause 'em to say "hey, what the hell was that?"
PS: It was questioned whether changing the subject line to reflect a new
topic is part of the rules of this list. If not, it should be. It's been
considered good etiquette since the beginning of the net (actually way
before the net, it goes back to the BBS days). It just makes sense. How many
time have you read a post whose subject line doesn't even remotely reflect
the body text. Makes it hard to do that initial message triage. :-)
If you're going to start that, then make sure to implement 'creating a
new topic'. I don't mean replying to what someone else has posted,
change the subject, and go from there. That's rather disruptive to
thread readers.
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is like driving your car at night, without headlights. (K4KYV)
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73 = Best Regards,
-Geoff/W5OMR
