Fw: Listserver Auction, was Re: Canon Cat - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

23 May 2001

Hey!!!

Cut the damm RTF formatting, I'm tiring of OE jumpin to the stinking 16pt
font.

Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: Marvin .org><marvin@rain
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt;
Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 2:09 AM
Subject: Listserver Auction, was Re: Canon Cat

...

Sellam Ismail wrote:
>
> On Tue, 22 May 2001, ip500 wrote:
>
> >       And this is BETTER than eBay ??? How is it that this just sort
> > of slides by and yet if you DARE to stick an eBay pointer up you get
>
> If you didn't catch the irony of my message, I find this "auction" to
be
...
   so absurd that
I am just laughing at it. 
I, for one, think it is a great idea and have no problems at all with it!
...
 Among other things, it does away with the luck of being
the first person to
...
 read a post and get the item. Also, it keeps the item
in this community
which is most likely a good thing.

Another approach is to use the pre-approved bidder list on Ebay, and only
...
 approve people on this list to bid. From my standpoint,
that might penalize
...
 the lurkers since *I* would only recognize the people
that have posted in
...
 the past. OTOH, it might encourage people to post once
in a while :). 