Hello all; Thank you all for a lively and useful conversation. I apologize tremendously that I posted the Mak for sale ad to SAC announce, I had every intention of putting in on SAC forum and just had a mouse OOPs at the last minute...sorry:-( I will put the scope up on SAC forum right away. Clear Skies to us all; Steve Coe -----Original Message----- From: sac-board-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:sac-board-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Dickson Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 10:32 AM To: SAC-Board@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [sac-board] Re: [Fwd: scope for sale] On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 23:51:44 -0700, Steve Coe wrote: > So, I have not heard anymore on this subject. So I have a couple of > questions.... > > Can SAC members post objects for sale onto sac-forum? SAC-Forum is open to just about anything, despite AJ using his shoe as a gavel. > If not, is there some other electronic media available? Astro-Mart? > What about Non-SAC members for both of those questions? See the December '98 issue of SACNews (available at the club's web site). Such-a-Deal ads were for "members and friends", where I chose friends to mean the ads that where sponsored by a SAC member. By that rule, Rick is free to sponsor any ad he chooses. > Did my telescope for sale (the 7inch Mak for 1300 dollars) get posted? For various reasons I chose not to approve the message for SAC-Announce. I'm not the only moderator of that list, but some of my reasons were: it was a one-off item and wouldn't benefit more than one member; SAC-Announce is SAC's public voice so it goes to non-members that club would like to be kept informed; and it was an ad not an announcement (although this likely a restatement of my first reason). These added up to my not approving the message. > If not, what else can I do electronically? See above, use SAC-Forum. > Telrad has been nice enough to make room for the ad in the newsletter, > either this issue if it can fit or next issue for sure. > > Thanks for the answers, that way I will know what to do in the future or > if a Non-SAC member asks about posting an advertisement. -Paul