On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:35:12 GMT, "Mr. Chigliac"
wrote:

If you want to get technical, why are people SELLING or BUYING things here
anyway...they should be SWAPPING/TRADING only, hence the Newsgroup name
rec.radio.SWAP. There should be no monetary transactions at all!

Okay, so can we hear your definition of activities at a hamFEST??

Please enlighten us....

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 01:40:57 -0500, Sky King
wrote:

I have been reading these ham radio groups for many years now.
Every now and then somebody goes into a tizzy about somebody used
FS instead of FA. Then the thread goes on forever because the Tissy guy
is really nasty about it using a lot of potty mouth. Some simply say,
use FA, not FS. I think that is OK. Even though items are for sale
at auction. I always use the FA: when I list my auctions.

The charter for the newsgroup states FA for ebay auctions.

And I only post it every couple of days and the last day of the auction.

Really no need to post it more than once (i.e. when you first create
the auction.

On many systems the original posting drops off within a day or so while some
systems show postings forever.

Most news servers base the retention date based on the size of the
newsgroup. There's maybe 100 posts here a week. I have a article from
here I just retrieved from December (12/19/2004 to be precise). I
seriously doubt there's a server that doesn't keep messages from this
group for 10 days (the longest an eBay auction runs.

And I'm pretty sure, if you post "FA: Radio Widget" and then "FA: Four
days left!" .... "FA: Three days left" "FA: Two Days left!" "FA: One
Day left!" "FA: 12 Hours left!" ... "FA: 11 hours left!" "... "FA: 25
minutes left!" most people will ignore you if not killfile you.

I however do not list every day, this can be annoying to the reader.

Exactly. See above.

HOWEVER, people who absolutely don't want to even see any FA's should use a filter so they don't see them.

Exactly. Hence why the charter states to use FA. Then people bypass it
by posting FS.
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