Every response is noted.
But how do you get parts you want/need from list members, short of asking on the list? The idea is that after the initial request/offer, everything else would be off list.
Which is the idea. Encourage people to ask on list If one was in need of mouseballs, one would ask, replies would hopefully follow offlist while the possible discussion about type, size and possible replacements could continue onlist.
Good example Stuart, I almost remember your thread of last year. IIRC you ended up at http://www.mouseballz.com/ as a final solution. Although it generated some discussion. ;)
Our local LEM list here is mainly a swap/give away list with the odd spurt of real mac discussion. Bearable but hardly what I subbed for.
Of the 80 or so LEM related lists a fair portion of these are as dead as a dodo, rename one to 68k swap which posts a digest to those who wish to sub every xxxx and save the discussion lists for the perpose they where made.
Surely our yank friends have many more places to seek hard/software without turning the discusion lists into a market place where folks will end up argueing whether the adapter advertized for the SE30 is correct or not and therefore on topic or not, let alone the venting of some agro when a deal made falls through.
I've been very grateful to the UK members for several items sent for nix after mentioning a need or the lack of resources here, there are several helpful soles on these lists who will offer items, offlist, from both sides of the pond.
Being half a world away is of course part of the problem for me, shipping to OZ from the US is wasteful in the extreme though cheap as chips the other way. Basicly the swap mail would be little more than spam for me while I'm more than happy to offer help to folks who have a onlist requirement, as I'm sure many of us collectors are. This doesn't impose extra unwanted mail while it does premote discussion about options, which brings us back to mouseballs again.
I have one of those less than wonderful square mice with the big heavy ball and the D-type squeze connector which I have tried to give away twice when the topic has come up. ;) among other things.
The other option would be a dedicated digest, swap/sales get sent to someone who posts a digest on a given day to those interested in such things, frankly I see the first 6 months being rather busy while dying off after that. At this point both the listmom and nanny can decide if it should then be intergrated into the discussion list.
Not being a member of the swap-list I fail to see why you folk can't use the list for the purpose it was made, its a daily board rather than once every xxxx. If you cop any sort of flak for posting 68k from the ppc or g-set then thats an issue that that needs to be addressed but not by this list.
Someone mentioned X-posting the swaps to the vintage list. NO thanks.
Posting of Freebies or "Fair Trade" offers should be encouraged, so long as the supplier states "offlist replies only" which is the biggest fault with the posts earlier in the month - the fact that un-needed replies came back through the list causing a bout of silliness, not the actual offers. This type of offer was tried by a Chris Lawson earlier in the year with much the same result.
That will do from me regarding this subject.
Cheers
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