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Gee John...thanks."
Hey, no problem Bas... glad that i could contribute

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They simply may not care, and there may be a few bad apples in there, but that will happen no matter what for the most part... I think that we'd be cutting ourselves off from some great deals out there if we disallow that sort of post... fear of outsiders will only have us living in a
"The Village" society on this site, and quite frankly, that kinda sucks, especially when it comes to things for sale... what if a guy who was in his 80's happened to buy an 89 Exclusive back in the day, and drove it to and from church on the weekends... then, it comes time to sell, and he has a friend hook him up to this 'internet thing', and finds some sites to post the car on. It'll get posted everywhere else BUT here, because we don't allow his kind here... so one of our members might miss out on the deal of a lifetime.
As for people potentially getting screwed, because they don't know as much as you or me or anyone else around here... well, that'll happen regardless of whether we allow a post here or not. If they aren't smart enough to take the advise of the people on this site, and ask questions, then they'll learn the hard way... thats the way of life... if we start trying to protect them from themselves, now we're like a mini-government, and we'd better start paying attention to other things that go on around here, and control more of it, like what happens in PMs... we'll have to keep better track of sales that occur, and try to enforce shipping rules and crap.... its a vicious cycle.
Its ALL "Buyer Beware", and you are responsible for your own actions, the site is NOT. Sure, we can look out for each other, and if we see something wrong with a car for sale, maybe post in the thread... but don't keep that car (or any other item for sale) from being posted in the first place...
Oh, and i don't think its difficult to believe at all about people not getting into web forums, and someones lack-of understanding of how a forum works... you DO realize, that just because
you understand a forum, doesn't mean most other people do? I know a LOT of people, young and old, who have never visited a forum, and don't really care... they also don't quite understand what i'm talking about when i describe it to them.... most comment on how complicated it sounds... even people my age! The internet is probably AT BEST a 10% representation of what really is out there in any given special-interest group. Maybe its different over there, but here, there are a lot of people still that don't care about the internet other than email.
Maybe a better idea, would be to implement some sort of required email in the post... an added field, or just a requirement. Maybe it is something that could be coded with a verification step, where the post is set into limbo until a link is clicked that gets emailed to the user? then, that working email is placed onto the post... i'm sure there is someone in here good enough with PHP that could make something like that happen... i could be wrong though, who knows.. lol!