[Leica] friday guideline/rule?

[Photovilla@aol.com]

<<These lists of

equipment and commercial people should use Friday. Period. This M6 HM TTL,

from the looks of it, is a commercial AD. It should have been posted on

Friday. If occasional a LUGger decides to trade-in an item, or advertise on

e-bay, or whatever, I, for one, would like to have a crack at buying it

before it's given to the masses. Which means the occasional mid-week message.

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You are right that this was a "commercial" ad and I do sell enough equipment
to be considered a "dealer." This has been quite a natural progression of the
Leica collecting mania! <g>

I have been reading this list for a few years and if I remember correctly
several members of the list came up with the "Friday for sale" idea. Before
that ads were posted irregularly, but with less volume.

I didn't realize that "fridays" had become a "rule" since then. I would not
have posted this here on a Tuesday if I thought I was violating the LUG
"charter."  Is there a charter somewhere that we can read?

The reason I posted it here first is that I only have one M6HM TTL and the
last one I received was sold before the LUG had a chance at it. I had to
inform two interested parties that it was sold. I thought the list might
appreciate "first shot" at it.

Rather than contributing to controversy I will post on Fridays only from now
on. 

I would like to add a thought that perhaps an easier rule than "no dealers" or
"post on Friday" might be "no more than 1 post per week per member" with "no
more than x number of items."

This would put an end to the time zone problem as well as protect the list
from becoming an endless stream of spam. It seems to work for the LHSA in
their Viewfinder publication (2 pg. max) and it requires less "Internet
police" to enforce.

Just my thoughts...back to the races!

later,
Rich