I find that I now always put the fact that I'm in Winnipeg (and no
offense to our friends further south, I make sure to include Manitoba,
Canada) under my name on the Swap List because I too have got tired of
the cross border issues.... I'd be fine with using this list with a
clearly marked and agreed upon tag so people can filter out such
messages -- [FS] or [WTB] for example. I've also gotten into browsing
the ehmac site, but find the email list sort of nice.... responses
should be off-list I think.... The traffic is not so much that we'd be
overwhelmed (famous last words).
Rick
In Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada ;-)
On 28-Oct-05, at 4:56 PM, Lincoln Dunn wrote:
<puts hand up>
I second.
Have a good weekend, all....
LD
On 10/28/05 4:51 PM, "Sovereignty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that a generic across-the-board
rule for
all of Dan's lists? If that's the case, and because this list is a
relatively slow list, could we subscribers see if there is any
strenuous
objection to coming up with our own guidelines on posting for-sale
items?
Were we to have that discussion, I'd vote for a trial period till the
end
of 2005 to see how it goes.
I'd also vote for limiting for-sale/trade/barter/free items to no
more than
once a week, per person, with no repeats for two weeks.
I'd also vote for multiple items being listed in one post to the
list, not
one post per item.
I'd also vote for any responses to be offlist unless the reply would
benefit us all. (ie 'how much is shipping to me' shouldn't be asked
onlist
while 'which forms of payment will you accept' might interest more
than the
one asking the question. That said, the original post should include
something about payment forms.)
I'd also vote for the subject line to include whichever keyword we
choose
('sale' '$') so that those who aren't interested (and who don't
strenuously
object to the trial) can set their email filters to avoid the posts
and the
threads.
I'd also vote for the items must be in Canada and shipped within
Canada.
Absolutely no cross-border.
All the hypothetical votes based on a hypothetical discussion.
Sov
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