I thought that was already the way we did it. If not, I've been breaking
the rules. It seems that regular contributors should be able to post FS
items. Personally, I wouldn't mind FA either, as I sometimes miss things,
but I don't feel that strongly either way.
Tom
>
> Perhaps we should modify this consensus. I think this arose from Paul
> Van Tuyl (sp?) who never contributed anything to the list beyond his
> advertisements. I for one did not appreciate his pure commercial use of
> the list, even though by all accounts he is a nice person.
>
> You on the other hand do contribute more than pure commercial self
> interest posts and I personally would have no problem with you posting
> about interesting items you might have for sale.
>
> The same went for Gary Schloss. He contributed to the general
> discussions of the list and occasionally would slip in a shameless
> commercial plug cunningly disguised as an on topic post ;-)
>
> I didn't mind that at all, in fact it was very entertaining to see each
> new ploy he would use to slip one in. I doubt anyone else minded either.
>
> I still think posts referring to Ebay auctions are a bit annoying but a
> straight for sale notice with a price would be OK for list contributors.
>
> How do others feel?
>
> Giles
>
>
> Gary Reese wrote:
>
> > It was also a democratic consensus that the List shall remain free of
> > postings from full-time dealers. The unfortunate result is that some
> > "cream of the crop" equipment doesn't show up here first.
>
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