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Internet-Based Realtors Win Monster Settlement
coondoggie writes "Until today, most Internet-based real-estate brokers were considered second-class citizens, and their clients were left in the cold. But perhaps that will change with today's news that the Department of Justice has reached a proposed settlement with the National Association of Realtors that requires NAR to let Internet-based residential real estate brokers compete with traditional brokers. NAR has agreed to be bound by a 10-year settlement, under whose terms NAR will repeal its anticompetitive policies and require affiliated multiple listing services to repeal their rules that were based on these policies." Here's the whole settlement document on the DoJ's site.
Just ignore this, I'm testing out an input validation issue I'm seeing with Slashdot's comment system... :hello :() :() :hello :test
... interesting. The four slapped on the first line are a : without a space (i.e. :hello etc) on their own line; the second set was entered identically (each on its own line) but with a space after the : ....
: hello
: ()
: ()
: test
What is this written in, Perl? Need to look up string processing subroutines in Perl... something ill going on here...
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