Hi all, just my .02 cents here.
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. And I only
post it every couple of days and the last day of the auction. On many
systems the original posting drops off within a day or so while some
systems show postings forever. I however do not list every day, this
can be annoying to the reader. HOWEVER, people who absolutely don't
want to even see any FA's should use a filter so they don't see them.
This would solve a lot of distress on the groups. I thank these groups
for the use. Many, or most guys that read stuff here DO look at the
auctions. The ebay counter proves this. You get a feel of how many
hits you have in a given time. When posting on some of the groups
the count goes up a lot in a few hours.
Anyway, thanks again for reading my .02 cents!
73, and remember, it is only a hobby.

Sky


Hamguy wrote:

Hey internet police...does it really matter whether a person uses FS or FA?
I mean, on auction sites, people are either BUYING or SELLING stuff. It
appears to me that this guy is SELLING a scanner, so FS is just fine.



"dontspam" wrote in message
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It's FA not FS



On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:08:30 -0500, "TJ" wrote:


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...17&refid=store

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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