Nathan Lindsey wrote:
>
> Pehaps y'all would consider this. Traffic on weekends is typically pretty
slow on
> the list. Most all of us are in Flea Market Mode on the weekends as well.
>
> How about simply limiting the FS and WTB posts to each weekend. Whatever
> discussion these posts spark can go on the rest of the week.

Well, no.  Some of the reasons that weekends tend to be so light might
be:
1) Some people only have access from work/school.  This wouldn't work
well for them.
2) Spending more time with the Family Unit.  I'd just as soon not get
involved in divorce proceedings :-)
3) Some people use that time to go out and actually hunt for the rusty
items that they're going to sell.

Another suggestion was to limit each dealer to one FS posting per
month.  I'd thought of that earlier but decided that I didn't like it.
It would require a greater monitoring presence - not only reading the
post but also checking it off against a list to see if this person has
already posted.  It's easy to do automatically, it just smacks too much
of over controlling the list.

Some concern has been expressed that we'll be inundated with spam type
posts from non-contributers.  All I can say to this is that I'll be one
hell of a lot less tolerant of people who are just selling rather than
contributing if/when we go to this system.  By "contributing" here I
mean contributing to the general knowledge level, about tools, of the
list - not _just_ some posting about about some tool collecting groups
goings-on or about a sale that is comming up.  Let's just say that at
any time if I had reason to check up on some seller the ratio of *truly
informative* posts to FS posts had better be > 1.  If someone joins the
list and just starts sending FS's they won't be here for long.

-Ken