RE: FS lists (was: Sorry!)

John G. Dennett III (dennettj@stripe.colorado.edu)
Thu, 26 Dec 1996 09:32:43 -0700


For the record,

I greatly appreciate it when people post something along the lines of "I've
got some music of this genre or by these kinds of artists for sale and
email me for the full listing." I've purchased CDs from such short,
friendly solicitations several times and would not want to discourage
people from responsible buying and selling. This is one of the reasons I
enjoy subscribing to the a-j list.

My $0.02 worth,
John Dennett

At 10:23 AM -0700 12/25/96, Mark B. Conklin wrote:
>At 12:18 PM 12/25/96 -0500, you wrote:
>>>>>I have been informed that sale posts are inappropriate, and I apologise
>>>>>for posting Re: the Headz II boxes.
>
>We have been though this before, but since it's xmas and bandwidth should be
>somewhat slow, I thought I'd offer my opinion. I think the problem is with
>repeated postings of sale lists. Being very general, there are many people
>on this list that like the sale lists and many that don't. I think the
>bottom line should be, is what you post of interest to people on this list.
>People that have done sale lists (myself included) know that when an initial
>message is sent to this list stating that items are for sale, the response
>is usually overwhelming. Point being, there is interest. Nobody is going to
>find EVERY post on this list of interest, but to get on people who post sale
>lists is pretty self-centered.
>
>Merry Christmas,
>
>MC