You have to have a way to take items off the list or the person selling will be contacted forever for that good selling item that went in one week and get calls for a year.
-----Original Message----- From: Bill BIGGS <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, Aug 13, 2009 12:17 pm Subject: RE: [ercoupe-tech] alternate for-sale/wanted "website" I'm ready, sounds like a good idea to me. Would it be just like this forum where you just send an e-mail? Thanks Ed, Bill To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:15:25 -0500 Subject: [ercoupe-tech] alternate for-sale/wanted "website" Al’s swap-page appears to have ceased existence and Al recently unsubscribed from our forums (at least from his normal e-mail address). Maintaining a for sale / wanted website, and doing it right, requires either direct personal maintenance or a wiki system like Al used and is used in Wikipedia. Tommy Terry, one of our forum moderators made this suggestion: We could put together a low-effort but practical swap page by creating a third Coupe forum on Yahoo. Sellers and buyers would simply send a message to the forum and it would sit there on the forum web page and eventually get archived (and be searchable). I coul d set it so only members of that forum could post but anyone could read the messages to give a wider market for the items. Those of you who refuse to get a Yahoo account could still post messages, receive e-mails of posts and view the for-sale/wanted items without getting a Yahoo account, but you’d have to sign up as a forum member to post messages or receive e-mails – just like you do now for the existing forums. I suppose I could set it so anyone could post but that’d exacerbate the spam problem. You, as an individual, could either chose to have individual messages, daily digests, or no mail sent to you. If you choose no mail, you’d have to visit the forum web page to browse items. Similarly, if you want to look back for the last few months of postings, you’d have to visit the forum web page on Yahoo. What do you think? Anyone have better suggestions? Ed Ed Burkhead Current forum “owner” and moderator of existing Coupe forums http://edburkhead.com/Ercoupe/index.htm ed -at- edbur???khead.yyy change -at- to @, remove the ??? and change yyy to com Get back to school stuff for them and cashback for you. Try Bing now.
