At 08:55 AM 1/5/2003 -0600, you wrote:
quoted 17 lines At 02:34 AM 1/5/2003, ben gill wrote:>At 02:34 AM 1/5/2003, ben gill wrote:
>>It's surprising how many posts have to do with
>>people's auctions nowadays. Must be like a 1:1 ratio
>>of advertising auctions to discussion-oriented posts.
>>Throw in the Guidance records posts and you're up to
>>2:1....As noiseloop mentioned in a previous recent
>>email, Rephlex doesn't bow to US corporate
>>imperialism; why should this list bow to its users
>>annoying advertising? Not that there's really an
>>analogy in any true sense of the term, but it
>>relates....
>>
>>Ben
>
>Actually, this was hashed out in about 1997. The protocols established
>permit FS lists and auctions as long as the sales lists aren't overly long
>and auctions as long as the same items are not continually advertised.
Plus, that's the only way to get a lot of the more obscure music, if you're
not paying attention to all of the new release lists from obscure record
stores. Usually by the time that the word gets around about how good a
small pressing is, there's nothing left to buy. Similarly, it's also one
of the few ways to get older stuff that's also been hard to come by.
Sure, they're a pain, but as most people mark their posts accordingly
(either auction or FS or ebay), they're easy to ignore if you don't want
anything. I don't like seeing them all over, but then there's the few
times I buy something from them, so I guess I'm pretty happy they're around.
derek
-------
eggytoast.com
-------
coming soon: eggtastic.com
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org
For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org