Ads are supposed to be approved by me prior to posting. If someone is abusing advertising on the list, please let me know off-list. I can set them to NOPOST, meaning I will have to approve every post they send to the list.
Darren (still the list owner) On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, Linda Mooney wrote: >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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
