While I am sure its a nice product, a list dedicated to it is appropriate. Ed
Sent from my iPad On Jul 4, 2011, at 8:46 PM, Richard Pinion <[email protected]> wrote: > MFNetDisk is a wonderful product of which the developer does not charge one > single penny! > My company has saved 10's of thousands of US dollars by using this free > product. You might > say that it is not a good idea to put production data in the hands of such a > product. I > say, we simply would not be able to accomplish what we have without it. In > other words, > our company would not be in business without MFNetDisk. We would not be able > to purchase > the TB's of mainframe disk storage that MFNetDisk gives us. > > The postings from the developer are very useful to me and the company I work > for. I > don't consider them to be "ads". If you find them bothersome, then you are > free not > to read them. > > > --- [email protected] wrote: > > From: Ed Gould <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Ads on IBM-MAIN > Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 19:55:59 -0500 > > 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 > > > > > _____________________________________________________________ > Netscape. 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