On Wed, 23 May 2001, R. D. Davis wrote:
> On Wed, 23 May 2001, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> > Personally, if I saw something in a Goodwill that I wasn't familiar with,
> > and I posted about it to the list, and everyone responded with "GRAB IT!
> > R_at_RE!!!", then I would probably go grab it so that I could give it to
> > someone on the list. If there were multiple people interested in it and
> > it mattered, I'd do some sort of lottery (pick a number from 0 to 65535)
> > and then give it to whomever came closest (they pay shipping). I
>
> Whatever happened to the first person to respond to a posting of
> something for sale or for free to be the one to get it? That's how it
> used to be on Usenet for many years, and it always worked out quite
> well; that seems to be the fairest way to sell or give away something.
> ...of course, things have certainly changed since the masses invaded
> the 'net.
Understood. But I was responding to Marvin's comment about giving folks
who don't have a permanent SMTP connection to their brain a chance to get
in on the action. In general, I always go with the first respondent.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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