On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:45:25 +0000, Tim W wrote:
Is a wonderful concept. Just off loaded some outgrown kids stuff to good
homes very quickly, prior to our move next week. Sort of stuff you'd get 10
quid for if that after waiting a week on ebay and impractical to post...

Pity that the mailing list software is so crap though. Yahoo groups is the
devil's rectum (what an awful signup procedure and then have to wait for
moderator approval on each and every group which can take 48 hours...) and
the emails are very bursty - eg many hours for a TAKEN message to appear if
it ever does, so spend ages replying to loads of people that it's gone

The new web/email interface some of the other groups are using has
potential, but the emails are totally erratic (yes I have emailed the
admins). Anyone else noticed that?


I agree about the mailing software. I find that most of the "good stuff" has
been grabbed long before my email notification arrives. The frequency that
emails are sent (and when items appear on the webite seems to be down to the
whim of the administrators: when they log in to approve new postings.
There are the occasional people who take the ****, f'r instance recently
Wanted: Quad Core pc:

I've also got a few perl scripts that summarise the emails and there seem
to be some professional "wanters" around. However, there are also a few
"givers" who seem to post dozens of items a month, so I suppose it cancels
out.