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my experiance of giving away computers on freecycle is that you could make a rod for your back,i personally have been deluged with emails and phone calls pleading as to why that person should be the One who should have the said tower, also there is some amount of crossover as some ppl belong to more than there local site. i will put a computer on freecycle by this weekend and gauge the results,and will feed back to the forum,it will go on exeter forum and have kubuntu9.04 loaded.alex the noob Wed, 06 May 2009 21:32:05 +0100, james kilty <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 11:47 +0100, tombrough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> I didn't get kicked off as such, but they where not happy with me >> "advertising" the Free Software Day last year. They felt that I wasn't >> giving anything away. I pointed out that we where giving services and >> free >> CD's, but the moderator was still not happy. > Interesting. I was able to advertise our 2 sessions in Penzance via the > Penzance Freecycle on the grounds that it was a way to hold on to > computers and reuse older ones - hence is well within the spirit of > Freecycle - we did offer to give away copies of the install discs and > even install for people bringing computers along. > > Can you makew this case? > > Good luck > > James > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html