Assembled,
	There has been some complaints and discussions about FS (For Sale) lists 
posted to the OldTools group.
	I get the Digest version of the list and in scanning it this morning I may 
have missed the following points made by others.  But........
	First, FS lists are ancient and honorable components of Galootdom.  They 
are original back to at least Digest 20.
	Second, there was a limit placed on them by the original ListMoms - FS 
Lists were limited to posting on the First Monday of each month.  It was 
called FMM (First Monday Madness).
	Some limits were placed on FS lists in part because of the size limits of 
the Oldtool list in the early days and because some nations charge 
customers for email by the line.
	But, when I first came to the the OldTools list, few Galoots used 
eBay.  Everyone waited eagerly for FMM and especially the FS from the 
MoFA  (tm: Merchant of Ashby -aka Pat Leach) and Akbar (aka Tom Bruce).
	Third, there are Galoots who use old tool to build items of interest and 
want to discuss the how-to of building them and there are Galoots like me 
who build things, but joined the OldTool list because it was a source of 
discussion about the tools themselves and originally THE source for them 
over the Internet.
	So, I hope FS Lists remain a part of the OldTools world.  But, I see no 
reason why they should not again be limited to FMM - the first monday of 
each month only.  And, for those capable or sufficiently online space 
endowed, the use of pointers to web-based lists should be encouraged.
	Besides, if Tony doesn't post his FS list of ANIWEB (Absolutely Nothing I 
Wanna Ever Buy), how can I tease him?  You go Tony!  Many towns are now 
much lighter and brighter for your purchases.  But, when will Pennsylatucky 
sink under the weight of all that STUFF you have brought there?
	Oh, and besides my own verbose language, the worse thing I see on the list 
is not the size of FS Lists.  Rather it is the size of the copied text that 
Galoots repeat when they reply to a post.  Please shorten the original 
message to a word minimum or a line maximum.  Copying more than one line of 
the original message is not necessary.  The copying of an entire message 
ought to bring Spittoon duty to the offender.

	
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*   Karl W. Sanger                               *
*        Desperately seeking antique       *
*                    Machinist Tools!!!           *
* (Email: sangerkw@m...)   *
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