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Classifieds is now being pruned on a regular basis, to discourage the low-life thief "farmers" who scan old ads for pigeons. Keeping this thread outside of Classifieds ensures that it won't get pruned.

At the risk of embarrassment Para, I didn’t understand this.

Old ads are removed from Classifieds in order to prevent scammers from searching through those dormant ads in an effort to find members to scam. Because threads are routinely removed from the Classifieds section, any threads posted in that section run the risk of getting deleted once they become inactive.

Therefore, in order for this thread to avoid that risk, I created it outside of Classifieds, in a section of the forum which is not pruned. I then created a shortcut to this thread, in Classifieds, so that it is visible in that section. If you look in Classifieds, you'll see a link to this thread.

Got it. Thank you

Thank you for your work, para. That’s some deep thinking on just that one aspect of Classifieds which is only one of many sections in this forum.