On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:22:52 +0100, Dave Liquorice wrote:

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:06:27 -0500, Jules wrote:

First to e-mail me off group

I'm not sure what the benefit if having the 'nospam' address in your
message header is if you're going to do that ;-)

But it's a POP to de-munge FFS!

Well, yes... :-) Always wondered if spammers are armed to the teeth with
software which tries to de-munge 'obvious' addresses, or if they just have
people doing that task... (or if they just don't bother because it's not
worth it, in which even the most trivial of address masking is good enough)

Incidentally giving stuff away is starting to bug me, purely because I
suspect the majority of it gets grabbed by folk who have no actual use
for it, but who bung it straight on ebay.

Or sell at the local car boot. This is a problem for many freecycle
groups but in well managed ones such people soon stand out and get
knobbled.

It might be terriorial / economical, too. The Cambridge one was very good,
but my one out here in the wilds of the US is awful - people giving away
crud (if only kittens were currency!) and anything remotely useful gets
pounced on by a few thousand lurkers.

I suppose that shouldn't irritate, because once it's theirs they should
be free to do whatever they want with it, but it still grates
somehow...

Agreed, it's been given away to that person to use and benefit from it's
use not to be sold and proceeds ****ed up against the wall, wafted into
the air or support a couch potatoes habit.

Maybe someone could draw up a legally-binding contract along the lines of
"send me a photo of the item in a year's time or you owe me x quid"

cheers

Jules