Comments on: Grey Bruce Freecycle http://theowen.com/go/2007/10/18/grey-bruce-freecycle/ Your number 1 online source for Owen Sound and Grey Bruce Events, stories and other great tidbits Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:55:13 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: mrG http://theowen.com/go/2007/10/18/grey-bruce-freecycle/comment-page-1/#comment-1757 mrG Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:42:09 +0000 http://theowen.com/go/2007/10/18/grey-bruce-freecycle/#comment-1757 the problem with the grey-bruce freecycle is that it tends to be centred too far south to be practical for the trade of free things up here. There is, however, an Owen Sound Freecycle, also hosted on yahoogroups, but the problem there is the list moderator has vanished into thin air, so the mailing list quite frequently gets bombarded with very ugly spam -- it's only once a week or so, but the nature of the posts is such that you wouldn't want to publically post their RSS feed anywhere. Despite the occasional f-buddy spams, I subscribe to both lists, and I have given and received some excellent stuff off both but do keep in mind that it isn't a nice local network like a closed community website, your emails are out there on a list that has subscribers everywhere and anywhere, not just neighbours. Highly recommended, but play smart, play safe. the problem with the grey-bruce freecycle is that it tends to be centred too far south to be practical for the trade of free things up here. There is, however, an Owen Sound Freecycle, also hosted on yahoogroups, but the problem there is the list moderator has vanished into thin air, so the mailing list quite frequently gets bombarded with very ugly spam — it’s only once a week or so, but the nature of the posts is such that you wouldn’t want to publically post their RSS feed anywhere.

Despite the occasional f-buddy spams, I subscribe to both lists, and I have given and received some excellent stuff off both but do keep in mind that it isn’t a nice local network like a closed community website, your emails are out there on a list that has subscribers everywhere and anywhere, not just neighbours. Highly recommended, but play smart, play safe.

]]> By: Joshua http://theowen.com/go/2007/10/18/grey-bruce-freecycle/comment-page-1/#comment-1752 Joshua Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:19:33 +0000 http://theowen.com/go/2007/10/18/grey-bruce-freecycle/#comment-1752 this is great... i will definitely use this in the future! this is great… i will definitely use this in the future!

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