[Premium-Rx] Proposed Policy Change for the Premium-Rx List

[Barry Hauser]

Right you are Mark -- and that's a fourth point I left out of my post.  Open
the door a crack to ebay remarks and things go quickly out of control.  It's
a "loaded subject".  Starts with "there's a such and such on epay now", then
migrates to critiques of the auction copy and item ("isn't that the
failure-prone version"), then remarks about sellers, packing, high shipping
charges, etc. Some say try it -- but it may actually get so bad that we
would need a moderated list set up on yahoo to replace this one.  I also
agree that personal for sales and WTB's are OK.

If you truly want to help someone find a receiver on the auction sites, tell
one or two privately, or set up another, expendable list for that purpose --
although, as I explained, and Mark mentions as well, that may well be
self-defeating.

Barry


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Donaldson" <mark.donaldson at third-rail.net>
To: "Greg W. Bailey" <gbailey at mail.sdsu.edu>
Cc: <premium-rx at ml.skirrow.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 9:29 AM
Subject: RE: [Premium-Rx] Proposed Policy Change for the Premium-Rx List


> I do like the idea of allowing members to post personal for sale and
wanted notices but definitely do NOT want to see ebay or other list notices.
I have seen other lists that I belong to dragged down by ebay notification
postings by members that thought they were doing the group a service but in
fact were wasting bandwidth and potentially driving up the price of the
auction by bringing in new bidders. It is easy enough to do a filtered
search of premium related items on ebay yourself without needing outside
help and I think most of us view the other lists often enough to catch for
sale postings.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg W. Bailey [mailto:gbailey at mail.sdsu.edu]
> Sent: Thu 11/20/2003 11:05 AM
> To: premium-rx at ml.skirrow.org
> Cc:
> Subject: [Premium-Rx] Proposed Policy Change for the Premium-Rx List
>
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