23 May
2001
23 May
'01
4:36 a.m.
On Wed, 23 May 2001, R. D. Davis wrote:
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Sellam Ismail wrote:
Understood. But I was responding to Marvin's comment about giving folks
who don't have a permanent SMTP connection to their brain a chance to get
in on the action. In general, I always go with the first respondent.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org
Personally, if I saw something in a Goodwill that
I wasn't familiar with,
and I posted about it to the list, and everyone responded with "GRAB IT!
R@RE!!!", then I would probably go grab it so that I could give it to
someone on the list. If there were multiple people interested in it and
it mattered, I'd do some sort of lottery (pick a number from 0 to 65535)
and then give it to whomever came closest (they pay shipping). I
Whatever happened to the first person to respond to a posting of
something for sale or for free to be the one to get it? That's how it
used to be on Usenet for many years, and it always worked out quite
well; that seems to be the fairest way to sell or give away something.
...of course, things have certainly changed since the masses invaded
the 'net.