Josh
your intention is of course good, but I think there's a big risk of
"selling" the list to the spammers, flamers and whatever. This list is not
at all hard to find if you're the least interested in Oly and OM, and it's
easy enough to join. I don't want to sound protectionistic (?) but I say a
true zuikoholic no doubt will find this list on his/her own.
2 cents
Henrik Dahl
> There's been plenty of discussion of keeping eBay off the list,
> but what about mentioning the list on eBay?
>
> Last year I was selling off various bicycle frame building bits
> and pieces on eBay, and in each auction I included a one-line
> plug for the bicycle framebuilding mailing list. The list got
> quite a few new members from that, including some excellent
> contributors. It didn't get any spam, or ads on the list for
> members eBay auctions.
>
> What would people here think about doing something like that?
> Surely there are people out there bidding on OM items who know a
> lot about the OM system but haven't run into the list. Would it
> be appropriate to put a list reference in an eBay ad, something
> like this:
>
> If you're interested in Olympus equipment like this, you might
> be interested in the OM mailing list, a noncommercial forum for
> OM-system enthusiasts.
> See http://Zuiko.sls.bc.ca/swright/olympuslist.html
>
> --
> josh@xxxxxxxxx is Joshua Putnam
> http://www.phred.org/~josh/
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