On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 03:21 AM, Mark Koan wrote:
I say once a week, but what exactly defines the parameter of a given day, since people are in different time zones and somebody might post late Tuesday night after midnite, in their own time zone, someone else 24+ hours later but legal in -their own- time zone.
The test is the time the posting was made in the country it was made from.
Also, I read the lemswap list a lot, and the main problem there is a handful of essentially dealers post extraordinary long lists of stuff, and it is ALWAYS the same stuff, day after day. I think the length of the swap-posts needs to be discussed, as well as expirations on the same objects being offered repeatedly.
Absolutely, All easily codifiable.
Here is a scary thought which perhaps no one will go for but it occurs to me to toss out: what if it really a *trade* list, in which money exchanges were discouraged, e.g, no paypal, no pricing listed, barter offline? At least that would keep away the profiteers who want to spam us with 10 page lists of paypal-only items.
The problem with pure swap is that it doubles the shipping costs, and beginners may have nothing to swap. I'm sure we can make the thing unattractive to traders! ;-)
Stuart
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