[Boatanchors] List owner and e-Bay

[Richard Knoppow]

     I am an administrator of a couple of lists but not an 
owner.  The list owner has the absolute right to decide what 
is to be posted there with the understanding that it must be 
within the acceptable practices of the list machine 
operator, in this case QTH.net.  Some lists permit 
advertising within some limits, some forbid all advertising. 
The lists I co-administrate permit advertising on Fridays 
only.  When I say advertising I mean offers to buy and sell 
by individuals.
     As a rule, most lists consider pointers to auctions, 
whether eBay or others, unethical.  Again, not all.  It is 
usually considered more correct to post offers to sell with 
a named price, directly to those who might want to buy. 
Negotiations for sales should be carried out via _private_ 
e-mail, NOT on the list.  The list owner is not considered 
to have any responsibility for the sale other than 
unsubscribing anyone who consistently cheats customers.
     I think on a list like this which is dedicated to very 
old equipment the list owner must make provision for those 
who need parts or want to trade parts.  Since no one should 
be expected to give stuff away all the time it may become 
selling.
     I also think that there are times when reference to an 
auction sale must be allowed provided its not just promotion 
for a sale by the person posting it.
     Again, the decision as to what can and can't be posted 
is entirely at the discretion of the list owner.  Members 
have the choice of unsubscribing or even creating a new list 
if they disagree with the rules sufficiently.  But, keep in 
mind that these lists are NOT democratic, they are strictly 
a dictatorship of the owner and actions must be understood 
in that light.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bry Carling" <bcarling at cfl.rr.com>
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] List owner and e-Bay


> Thank you. That Guide to Email List Guidelines and 
> Behavior, refers to the list "rules"
> but indicates that itself is not the set of rules of the 
> List. The rules are something other
> than the Guidelines. If the FAQ and the Guidelines are not 
> the rules, then they must be
> somewhere else. The Guide sure does sound like some good 
> rules of thumb that can
> improve behavior on any of the Lists.
>
> I expect that they probably go out in a monthly e-mail as 
> is normal for these groups and
> most of us don't read them (and should.) It also indicates 
> that the rules can be obtained
> from the List Administrator.
>
> On 15 Jun 2012 at 20:09, manualman at juno.com wrote:
>
>> I'll assume you're refering to the FAQ link. That's fine, 
>> but, as
>> I
>> indicated in my link http://mailman.qth.net/  in the 
>> previous
>> thread,
>> there is a list of "posting guidelines" for all 
>> discussion groups
>> under
>> mailman.qth.net. When you click on that link, it's on the 
>> left side
>> of
>> the page.
>>
>> Pete, wa2cwa
>