25 May
2004
25 May
'04
8:37 a.m.
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Tue, 25 May 2004, Damien Cymbal wrote:
Thank you.
Nothing personal, and I browse VCM anytime I'm looking for something,
but in general, "acceptable advertising" is a great way to kill off any
forum.
Plus, if _you_ do it, we'd have to let Mailing List and his ilk do it.
No smiley.
Doc
What is the view of folks posting items for sale
on the list?
I've posted forsale items to the list before, but recently I've been putting
more free items and some auctions up on VCM so I am hesitant to re-post
them here and turn this into a SPAM fest. Then again, I'd like to get as
wide an audience as possible. Do most readers of the list also frequent VCM
(my guess is a definite maybe)?
What if VCM posted a summary of all new items received for sale/auction at
the end of each day? That would only add 1 msg to the list that people
could quickly kill if they weren't interested but would insure available
stuff was getting as wide an audience as possible for those people that
don't frequent VCM regularly.
Patrick and I were considering this but as long as folks know that the VCM
exists then there's no reason to annoy the list with VCM listings. The
VCM has a "latest postings" feature so as long as you visit it every day
or so (at the current rate of new listings) then you'll be able to catch
anything new that gets posted.