Re: For Sale List

[P3D Joel Alpers <joel.alpers@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ron Beck writes:


> Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 16:59:33 -0600
> From: P3D Ronald J Beck  <rbeck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: For Sale list
> Message-ID: <9701092259.AA25087@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Now, is this type of information going to be banned from the photo-3d
> list?  It talks about a vendor and purchasing items.
> 
> Or, more specifically, if Dalia or Joel (or even Dr T.) were to say "I
> have several of these for sale." in response to the request for
> information, would these type of replies be denied and/or re-routed to the
> sale-3d list?
> 
> I've found that it is valuable to have the information on who has what for
> sale in the retail area of 3D whenever questions about cameras,
> attachments and slide mounts have come up.
> 
> On the other hand, I think the new list will be GREAT for those who've
> previously posted lengthy files of the VM reels (or whatever) they have
> for sale along with prices & such.  I hope, though, that we won't be
> losing valuable information on who has what simply because they can't
> mention their inventory in photo-3D discussions.

Ron

First, let me set aside my vendor's hat, and put on my moderator's hat ;)

Your posting is good, and highlights a grey area we as moderators discussed
at some length. It's difficult to formulate an exact policy, but my 
understanding of what was agreed on is:

---Informational--- messages should still go to photo-3d. When a posting
crosses the hard-to-distinguish line between purely informational and
product ---promotion---, it should go to sell-3d. 

Obviously, we'll do some sorting out of this as time goes on. If a 
vendor, for example, constantly pushes the envelope in photo-3d,
they'll be gently (at first ;) reminded of the -opportunity- they
have to promote themselves on sell-3d.

Sell-3d was created to have a legitimate place for such things as
auction lists (Note that it is NOT the place to conduct bidding!),
commercial advertising. Up till now we didn't have a place for those
(though some did take place on photo-3d). as well as a place for
people to buy and sell personal items. Hopefully it will reduce
a little of the loading on photo-3d, while providing a neat marketplace
for all of us.


BTW - Sell-3d has the same "moderators" list as photo-3d:
John B, myself, Yiing Lin, and Bob Wier. Though we do cover for each
other, I generally handle subscription requests, Yiing handles unsubscribes
due to bounces, John B usually handles digest requests, monitors the
"off-topic" issues and other stuff, and Bob handles listserv issues.
Not that you need to know this - just email to

  mailto:3d-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

if you have problems. Just thought it might be of interest.

Joel.


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