I agree with Philip, and while my initial gut reaction was to complain about spam and immediately opt-out, it does (or at least it *can*) benefit LOPSA to be able to show that a large percentage of the membership are opted in to receive these messages from sponsors.
Frankly, while I do hate spam myself, and yes I would qualify the message as UCE, I think if there's any organization out there that I could trust a bit more to 1) limit the number of emails to be reasonable and 2) make sure that the content is at least moderately relevant to my membership, it would be LOPSA. So I think I'm ok with this. Thanks for the explanation, Matt and Philip. -Adam On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Philip Kizer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26 Jun 2014, at 7:12, Will Dennis wrote: > > It meets my definition of "unsolicited commercial email"... I was not > aware that LOPSA had cut advertising deals for revenue. (And yes, if it was > O'Reilly or whatever, I'd be equally surprised and disappointed.) > > I'm not sure how long you've been a member, but this is one of the things > that did happen more frequently in previous years. It's just been a while > since we've had a sponsor make use of the (1 or 2 times a year) benefit. > > As Matt said, it's a benefit offered to LOPSA sponsors, and the fact that > you're seeing such announcements again in some ways is actually a really > good thing since it means LOPSA indeed has new corporate sponsorship to > both show support of LOPSA as an organization and provide resources to help > with organizational goals. > > > On Jun 26, 2014, at 1:31 AM, Atom Powers <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just because it is something you don't wan't doesn't make it "spam". On > the other hand, I can see how this could get out of hand fairly easily. Can > somebody on the board direct us to the policy that governs such email > advertisements? > > I'm no longer on the board and I can't currently speak to the "opt out" > situation, but regarding the policy, see the following two related items. > First, the actual policy: > > https://governance.lopsa.org/LOPSA_Policies/Sponsorship > > [...] > The Development Committee may, at its discretion > * create differing levels of recognition based on sponsorship source, > type, or amount > [...] > > and what the committee has set (and published) for sponsorship rewards (as > already linked to by Matt): > > https://lopsa.org/Sponsorships > > See the last bullet item in each of the Gold and Platinum sponsorship > levels that mention email to members as an option. > > > Overall you should actually see this message as a sign of health of LOPSA, > at least I do and though I have no need of their service, I definitely > welcome them as a LOPSA sponsor! > > > -philip > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > >
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