[s-cars] Re: List Ads

[Huw Powell]

> Did the Verizon email breakdown cause me to loose emails on this topic? 

It was on the mommy list, not the S car list.  I'm not on the Scar list, 
I have no idea if anything I send there gets posted.  All I get are the 
non-subscribed warning auto-replies.

> I don't recall seeing a thread on this subject.  Heretofore, I recall
> the rule was that commercial entities couldn't advertize.  Individuals
> could make their fellow listers aware of relevant items for sale that
> might be wanted.  Do I now understand I have to subtract from my limited
> remaining life the time required to scan the marketplace everyday to
> determine if some interesting s-car goodie has appeared?  Do organizers
> of group buys have to zip their virtual lips?

I'll try to take that in 4 steps.

1. there is definitely a no-commercial *rule*

2. there is a marketplace on the web site.  so it is clumsy and wasteful 
to post sale/buy notes tot he mailing list.  IMHO.  I do not know where 
*Dan* stands on that.

3. the marketplace has a mail option where all new ads are sent upon 
request, singly or as a digest.  I suspect the digest is a *very* 
effective way of keeping up with those.

4. I don't really see how a group buy thing would ever be an issue - it 
does fall under those categories, it's a team effort usually.  of 
course, most of them occur mostly "under the radar", ie, except for one 
or two announcements, they happen in p-mail.

To recap my position, buy/sell posts on the mailing list are redundant 
and wasteful now that there is a fully functional marketplace on the web 
site.

It is also not my place to make *or* enforce any of these rules, the 
list and site are Dan's babies.  I just take the trouble once in a while 
to be the jerk who has to point out that the marketplace exists.

I suspect Taka's post was cross posted, right?  Now, if he *sent* it to 
the main list, but doesn't subscribe... that would be a weakness of 
allowing people to post without subscribing... but I don't think it 
would be a reason to close off that option, no matter how selfish I find 
to to be, speaking "privately."

Anyway, whatever us mere humans may say, do, or think, the only "word" 
that matters is that of the owner(s) of the site and list - and Dan, at 
least, has historically been very relaxed about most of these things. 
Probably because there is enough self-regulating that most issues die 
down of their own accord.

-- 
Huw Powell

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