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Fri, 26 September 2008 23:37

timmy

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Location: UK, in Devon
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Freecycle is an amazing system You advertise what you have to give away, or what you want to be given, and, pretty often, there is someone who'll give or take the item. It turns stuff that has no resale market, even on eBay, into stuff that someone else wants. I probably won't advertise my collection of "no longer fun" gay porn there, though!

But I came across this (no pun intended there, do get your mind out of the gutter!): http://tinyurl.com/4vewrt

It's really an example of why a 100% pre-moderated forum does not work as well as it should. A Yahoo group IS different from a messageboard, though. It sends emails out all the time, so it does have to be more carefully controlled than we do here. So moderating a new member's posts for a short while does make sense, but, after that, treating them as adults usually works well.

Interesting that three or four people already took time to comment there on the blog. It seems that the blogger is not alone in his thinking.

[Updated on: Fri, 26 September 2008 23:39]

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