Want list(s) -- not the solution

[Jim Battle]

Brian Lanning wrote:
....
> 
> I visited Mike Lee today and brought home an Apple iie and iigs.
> (thanks mike)   He and I were talking about lists of wanted hardware.
> I think it might be useful for people to send around a list once a
> month or some other interval listing what we're after and maybe what
> we have to trade.
> Maybe we can bring it to the meeting later this month.  (is that still on?)
> 
> So I guess I'll start.  :-)

Brian, this is a terrible idea.  It doesn't scale.

Do you realize that there are >1000 people on this list?  If each 
broadcasts his/her wishlist every month, we will be up to our knees in 
unwanted wish lists.  If everyone does as you suggest, each individual 
request will likely receive as much attention as if you hadn't posted it.

It will be like a mail pyramid -- the first ones to do it will get some 
results, and everyone else suffers.

Let's do what we have been doing -- if you have some specific need and 
can't find it locally or on ebay, then think about asking the list.  For 
instance, you acquire some computer but it has no boot media.  Great. 
Everyone asking Santa for an Apple I for a month won't fly.

There are a couple "computer rescue" lists, although I don't track them 
anymore and don't know if they get updated.  If not, maybe someone with 
some web smarts can think about (re)creating one.  Go online, register 
your location and interests, update it when you want. Maybe get Jay to 
host it and link to it from classiccmp.org.