[X4U] OT: Can we sell stuff on this list?

[Nick Scalise]

On Jul 7, 2007, at 11:30 PM, Earle Jones wrote:

> Linda:  It does seem a bit strange that we cannot sell anything on  
> this list, given that the "Listmom" has been advertising his stuff  
> here via ebay for the past year or so.  In fact, his "clean out his  
> closets" message is still attached. (Although his eBay URL has  
> offered no stuff for a long time!)
>
>> Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random  
>> stuff:
>>          http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984
>
> It doesn't bother me if someone occasionally wants to sell an old  
> Mac or a disk drive or whatever -- I would not want to see this  
> become a major selling list.
>
> As for me, I have nothing for sale at this time.
>
> On Jul 7, 2007, at 8:00 PM, Linda wrote:
>
>> On 7/7/07 2:58 PM, Shawn King wrote:
>>
>>> Folks, this is a tempest in a teapot - there are *lots* of other  
>>> places on
>>> the web to sell your stuff.
>>
>> Are we not allowed to sell stuff? That question still hasn't been  
>> answered.
>> I simply posted, initially, that the original "for sale" message  
>> wasn't
>> necessarily spam at face value, because the Listmom has his own  
>> message in
>> the footer of every message that shows up. What is Listmom's  
>> policy? You
>> jumped in with some Latin words, but you didn't actually reiterate  
>> the
>> policy. Are you the Listmom?

Since I was one of the early spam callers, I am going to weigh in on  
the listmom and his inclusion of an advertisement at the footer of  
the message.

Since this list is free for all of us, I see no issue with the owner  
of the list earning a little to pay for server costs, hosting,  
bandwidth, etc.

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Nick Scalise
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