On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 09:49:20PM +0000, Denny wrote: > On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 22:31 +0100, Richard Foley wrote: > > On Sunday 08 November 2009 19:44:15 Peter Corlett wrote: > > > Giving stuff away on Freecycle is way too much work. It's almost as if > > > the people who run it have engineered it to discourage the occasional > > > giver as much as possible. > > > > Sounds like another great idea turned into a YAWOT (Yet Another Waste > > Of Time) because it's grown, or was built, too complicated. > > Mostly it just suffers from using Yahoo groups as the back-end, and then > trying to wrapper those in a failed attempt to make them friendlier or > something. Once you've managed to sign up to your local group, casual > giving is easy - post one message saying what you've got to give away, > pick a winner from the emails that are sent to you in reply, and then > post a second email saying that you've chosen someone and the stuff is > gone now. >
Web site doing freecycle-like style donation in France: http://www.donnons.org/. Subscribed yesterday, put in two items, got 4 requests already. Much easier than writing/processing emails. -- Philippe Bruhat (BooK) You never know what love is until you lose it. (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #38 (Epic))