Personally I encourage this use of the lists. If for no other reason than,
how many times do we see a posting from a lister stating that "My daughters,
exboyfriends uncles sister is interested in acquiring an LBC. Anyone know of
one in the West Begump area?"
This gives someone an opportunity to know haw to get one of our lovable
little cars into the hands of someone that wants it, instead of the crusher.
However, Rick, I do object to finding your emails in my Inbox, instead of
the carefully prepared (Procmail'ed) folders I use for Spridget and MG
emails.
I understand the reasoning for suppressing the entire recipient list, but it
still is a PITA. You are the only lister that I am aware of that does this.
Larry
Just going to have to create another Procmail Rule, just for Rick ;-)
At this exact moment in time 11/29/01 8:53 AM, "Richard Feibusch"
<rfeibusch@loop.com> made the profound statement:
> Listers,
>
> I have received a number off-list notes that question the use of these
> lists to inform listers about cars that are for sale. I know a few of us
> regularily pass on this information to this list or other approiate lists.
> I am in a position to hear about a bunch of cars that come up for sale in
> California because of my publicity efforts on behalf of the California
> British car meets. People call me with their cars for sale as well as
> "tips" on cars they find it their local papers or at meets that they
> attended. Generally, I have no financial interest in these cars and often
> do not even know the owner or have seen the car. Sometimes they are over
> 400 miles away. I know that I have found new owners for cars from as far
> away as Texas and the new owners were thankful and let me know when they
> got their car.
>
> My question is: how do the rest of us feel about the passing on of
> cars/parts-for-sale information to the group? Is this a proper use of
> bandwidth? Is it spam? Is it a nobel service??
>
> Just wondering
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rick Feibusch
> Journalist/Appraiser
> Venice, CA
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Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bbl.med.upenn.edu
System Administrator/Manager
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 1015 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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--Mark Twain
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