IDM Mailing Archive

quoted 11 lines On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Thad Biggerstaff wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Thad Biggerstaff wrote: > > First off, thanks for all those who supported my sale/trade lists > > the past two or so weeks. It is quite apparent that there are > > more people who would rather have such lists posted than not. > > Nope. The consensus of the messages I got was that folks do not want a > separate for-sale mailing list, they're fine with for-sale notices on idm > and ambient, but that they strongly agree with the rule on the ambient > list, which is limit it to one screenful, and point to a web page or > USENET posting. >

This was my intention, though i guess i went over a screen full. wont happen again...

quoted 6 lines I do not have web axcess at this point, so i will continue to

> > I do not have web axcess at this point, so i will continue to > > post lists once every week or two. > > Check out pobox.com or hotmail.com or even best.com. Surely you can > afford ~$10-20 per month? There are even places to do it for free, but > I'm not going to research your options for you.

i didnt ask you to. I have recieved my internet access through work at no cost, and appreciate it, thank you.

quoted 4 lines Hmm, do the folks at crn.org know you're using their resources to conduct

> > Hmm, do the folks at crn.org know you're using their resources to conduct > commerce? Looking at the mission statement at www.crn.org, it looks like > the purpose of that organization is anything but commerce.

I have recieved internet access through being a part of their pilot program (Together.Net), a project to get local community non-profit organizations connected to one another via the internet. thanks for being suspicious, though...

quoted 6 lines I'm not trying to be nit picky or to single you out, honest. There is

> I'm not trying to be nit picky or to single you out, honest. There is > a line which you are crossing, one created both by the community here and > the folks who make hyperreal possible, and just about everyone else knows > how to work within them and respect those constraints. No one has any > problem with the fact that you sell discs (even commercially) and you want > to make folks on /relevant/ mailing lists aware of what you have.

I had thought that this was the precise problem the original poster had an issue with, me posting such lists. I was meaning to address it.

quoted 4 lines Folks on the ambient and idm lists might not know this, but Thad also

> Folks on the ambient and idm lists might not know this, but Thad also > posted his for-sale list to all the rave mailing lists on hyperreal, and > elsewhere. Fortunately the anti-spam filters on hyperreal prevented it > from getting through to those lists.

I did this merely by using another's header as my source for addresses for my list. This person had originally requested from all the lists a source of music to buy/trade from. I responded to this request hitting the reply button, and did not think it would be a problem to send such a posting to the other lists. it seems i was wrong- from now on i will only post to those lists im subscribed to (though this all makes me curious about the original poster asking for sources of music...) -Thad