Hi Robert,
At 01:11 PM 7/14/2000 EDT, you wrote:
>One final coment from a "newbie" to the list. It seems that some list
members
>advise an odd (in my humble opinion) policy re Ebay auctions. To wit, that
>it's all right for ME to mention YOUR Ebay auction on list, as in "I just
>spotted this great piece of Olympus equipment on Ebay in case anyone might
be
>interested" and taboo for YOU to mention on the list that YOU "have this
real
>nice Olympus item listed on Ebay in case anyone might have missed it when
you
>first offered it to the list." I'm sure there must be some logic in this
>distinction that I'm missing. It's my advanced age, I suppose. I sure hope
>it's not "old-timers disease" creeping up on me. <g>
>
>Robert
I agree that this is odd, and I don't like it, but I think it is a
compromise that satisfies the need to involve eBay as popular culture on
list without turning it into a proxy eBay auction site.
Joel Wilcox
Iowa City, Iowa USA
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