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 --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- "Optimism is a strategy for making xxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx a better future." - Noam Chomsky xxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx