Miata Mailing List: December 1999, Message #18

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For the record, before anyone thinks that I was serious about that little post
with the personals ad, I was only kidding, it was not meant to be taken
seriously.... :)

Sorry about that kids, kidding kidding kidding as usual....

Maris

Aradia wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Kevin Campbell wrote:
>
> > > It's bad manners. That's all. Nothing to do with NMC or pay connections or
> > > other such myths. It's just bad manners.
> >
> > These usenets etc tho are an extension of what one would call a
> > circle of friends.  We exchange all types of ideas etc back and forth
> > on a daily basis, except instead of being in a spoken medium it is in
> > a written one.
> >
> > So if we were all standing around our Miatas shooting the breeze,
> > would anyone be uneasy about speaking up and saying.. "Hey I have a
> > Hardtop I looking to sell" or "Anyone know of someone getting rid of
> > their stock rims?"  None of us would dream of paying a percentage of
> > the sale price to the club hosting the run.  I think some folks view the
> > list
> > server like that.  Of course where one draws the line between, Joe has
> > a set of rims he wants to sell and Fred who buys, sells, parts out Miatas
> > left and right and constantly is putting up sale lists... is beyond me.
>
> Thanks for snipping the qualifying portion of my post, where I specify
> that I'm talking about *commercial* advertising, and that *personal*
> advertising is generally accepted.
>
> So, lest anybody else misinterprets my rant about Netiquette and Bad
> Manners, I am against commercial advertising on the net and accept
> personal "garage sale" types of advertising, so long as you don't ramble
> on constantly (ie, you ALWAYS post ads).
>
> -- Sean...
>    Team Voodoo!
>    Team Frou-Vroom =)