Re: (idm) IDM Marketplace?

From Brian Behlendorf
Sent Thu, Mar 12th 1998, 02:55

At 11:45 AM 3/11/98 -0800, Brian MacDonald wrote:
>Maybe I joined at a slow time.  Maybe I should just shut the fuck up.
>And I don't want to wish the good folks at Hyperreal any more work
>than necessary -- but has anyone ever considered the idea of an
>"idm-marketplace" list?  Being an "org" site has its limitations, I
>know.  But since most of the posts are more *pointers* to for-sale lists
>than actual for-sale lists (which is appreciated) and are, hence,
>more "OK" within an org site, I figure it may possible work.  (For one
>thing, using the word "marketplace" at all may seem a bit obvious... :)

Rather than make it a mailing list, doing it up as a proper database
application would be something I'd be willing to host at hyperreal.  Know
what I mean?  You could even make it cool and allow folks to be notified
whenever a new, say, autechre release was posted for sale.  You could do
the same thing but in reverse for want lists as well, and then plug the two
together.  :)

Anyways, we have Perl 5 and MySQL (+ P5 libraries) installed on Hyperreal.
Let me know if you're interested.  Don't get mad if I don't respond
immediately, I'm about to be offline for a few days.

        Brian


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