I agree completely with Shmuel.
Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, July 3, 2011 5:34:09 PM Subject: Re: Ads on IBM-MAIN In <[email protected]>, on 07/01/2011 at 08:10 PM, Lindy Mayfield <[email protected]> said: >Not sure if this is my business to say so, but normally on this list >we try to keep ads to a minimum. It's the business of every subscriber to complain about advertisements that are out of bounds, although the moderator has the final say. >Though I'd say that a few people contribute to the list 95% of the >time, and only advertise in a very subtle way. Email footers, for >example. IMHO boilerplate affiliation notices in the signature are both appropriate and desirable. >Just saying. Me personally, I can simply not click on things. If you're referring to spam sent to addresses harvested from the list, that's abuse and should be reported if you understand how to correctly identify the origin. If you're referring to job notices approved by the moderator, I consider them desirable. >Remember someone once, and only once, posted a job query with his >resume, etc? As I recall he didn't have the moderator's prior approval. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
