Darren, I was going to write you off list but since you brought it up. There is a on going advertisement on the list here that started as a minor annoyance and become a major pita. That is the bandwidth pig on IBM-MAIN of mfnet or what ever it's called. IMO it should be moved off to a separate list. The constant announcements of features and bugs and trial offers is getting past noise and is worth setting up a spam filter for. Could you please consider asking the author to create it's own list, please? Thanks.
Ed Sent from my iPad On Jul 4, 2011, at 2:45 PM, Darren Evans-Young <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
