We have suggested to our group that each person keep their own No Show list so as not to select such folks to receive future offers they make. I wonder about a...
__I keep a list of no shows etc..any member agasint member complaints. I advise members when they ahve been placed on the list (indiviually)but I do not give...
You have a good system. I do not think we should have a negative rating option on the new system. Instead of rating members for being "no shows," why not rate...
Thanks for your excellent description of handling the No Show problem when it arises. I suppose it should be obvious that your work in keeping the list is the...
There are lot of lessons to be learned from the current Freecycle.org outage and logo use: 1) It is convenient to link to the logo on freecycle.org (update it...
Forgive me for replying a message that has been written back in 2004, but I have an idea which may help. There is a way that would allow us to avoid language...
... I see at least three major problems with this system. First, it is a "ten thousand monkey" task to write **all** the messages and words into a text file,...
Language files would be especially important for Europe where there are many languages (German, French, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, ...) in a very small,...
There are two distinct problems: Translating template text and translating user entered text. My experience with OS Commerce ( http://www.oscommerce.com ),...
Hi, I'm a NYC native, and understand the language problem well. Someone from Flatbush in Brooklyn would have a hard time understanding someone fron Corona in ...
I'm currently working on coming up with a design for the entire site that is both easy to admin since it would use phpWCMS to let admins add new groups to...
... called ... a ... That's a good idea!! There would be a list of items that you can choose from, and then in order to describe the item, the users would be...
... Per Deron's recent posts on the project's progress, I believe there is already a dev team in place. Also per his most recent post, ideas for the new web...
I recognize that there are two different goals in front of us. 1. One of the goals is to have an easily searchable database of items currently wanted and...
Goals #2 and 3 sound like a Brave New World nightmare Freecycle, where all local focus and flexibility is gone. I would hope this is neither the goal nor the ...
... Hmm... chiming in with new ideas and critiquing current ones is great, that wasn't my point. (Actually, even though you quoted me, I'm not sure you were...
This was posted on a cafe that I am the Interim Moderator on, and I promised to pass it along. "Also, while I strongly recommend yahoo groups for discussions,...
I would like all members of my Freecycle group forced to get at least the the special notices. This way I can get messages to them when I need to. This also...
... I think the OP ment that they would like to see a way to force messages to subscribers/members (like Special Notices), and maybe not allow a 'nomail'...
... But if your group is getting 100+ posts a day, the chances that they go looking for ADMIN posts is pretty stinking slim.....not to mention if they don't...
In a message dated 6/17/05 12:24:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... This is the best reason for prohibiting members from blocking all email from the group. If...
... And you can't call Freecycle up on the phone either.....we aren't really an online extension of a concrete entity, we pretty much exist only on the net...
In a message dated 6/17/05 9:44:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time, eric@... ... I would recommend concentrating on the email aspect. It's a simple matter to...
... Then they shouldn't be using that address for the list - that is the address that they get replies to, send offers from, etc. If they can't use a company...
I would like to see a members history at the bottom of each posting that they make. This could include the number of OFFERS and WANTEDs they have posted, for...
In a message dated 6/18/05 2:18:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time, a4csd@... ... ============================================================= I would not want...
... As someone who does 95% of her work in email because she hates for webpages to load, I can tell you, that when I get a message thru that says 'Look at this...
I'm with Ed on this one. I have found myself recently posting wants for actual trash (empty koolaid jammer or capri sun juice pouches that I use to make beach...
On the other hand, our group uses the history to monitor a) if an offer has been made (we use--first post an offer) b) we have a max of 3 WANTED posts per week...
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