[PRCo] Re: Interesting Items on eBay (grande finale)

[John F Bromley]

Bob,

Thanks for the support (and to those others with similar feelings).  The
matter has gone away and everyone is as happy as they can be.  As the items
come out of the "mail to a friend" link on eBay I'm not sure if I can
actually add a title but if I can I'll see what I can do.

I look every day for stuff in which I have a specific interest - in doing so
my searches are broad enouigh to find obscure stuff, things that sometimes
aren't properly defined, etc, and in some cases I know of specific interests
outside the scope of this group and I tend to forward those privately (for
example Milwaukee to Las Vegas, New England to Kevin Farrell, that sort of
thing.  The items sent to group are either specifically relevant (yes,
sometimes they are), or for pure entertainment/incredulity (whoich in this
case is probably the same thing).   I'm retired and I have a life, as I
said, but I do find a bit of time each  morning to strip eBay as required.

JFB


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dietrich, Robert J." <bob.dietrich at unisys.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 7:46 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Interesting Items on eBay (grande finale)


>
> I don't usually get into these discussions but here goes.
>
> John says he was asked to stop clicking on the mail-this-item button on
> E-Bay.  Was that from someone on this list?  If so then my vote is "John
> keep clicking".  Most of the items John shows us are relevant to the whims
> of this list, at least as relevant as topics introduced by other list
> members.  I'll admit that I don't care about some of those E-Bay items but
> that is what the delete key is for.  I would like to make one suggestion,
if
> it is possible John put a word or two about the subject in the title.
>
> Some of the discussions that follow John's postings tend to drift away
from
> the stated course of the list but that is no reason to stop the posting of
> the original message.
>
> Someone suggested we could  search E-Bay for the things we are interested
> in.  Not me.  I don't have the time or inclination to add another time
> robber to my life.  I really do like to be surprised once in awhile,
though,
> with a good West Penn or PRCo picture that can be mine for $25.00  or
free.
>
> This is a most interesting group and we shouldn't thwart the free exchange
> of ideas, information, opinions, and pictures.
>
> Thanks for listening.
>
> Bob
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Derrick J Brashear [mailto:shadow at dementia.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 4:07 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Interesting Items on eBay (grande finale)
>
>
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 tompark at interchange.ubc.ca wrote:
>
> >
> > I find John's extracts of Pittsburgh relevant material from ebay
> interesting and valuable.
> > Why should he not keep posting these to the PRCo list?
>
> No Pittsburgh-relevant material is ever inappropriate for this list. I've
> never meant to imply otherwise.
>
> -D
>
>
>