I don't understand this list. Last year I found out that announcements of meetings of interest to NYC Wireless members were off limits so I stopped sending them (another member posted the announcement for the Eben Moglen talk on my behalf.)
Based on what other people were posting I assumed that the following, which I recently posted, was perfectly acceptable. (excuse me if I am compounding the problem by reposting it) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ nycwireless digest, Vol 1 #681 - 5 msgs Message: 2 Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 11:29:42 -0800 (PST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [nycwireless] orinoco silver antennas Does anybody know where one can get an antenna for an Orinoco silver card for less than $89+tax (Datavision price, the only place I have been able to find one). Alternatively, is there an alternative solution if ther signal is just a tiny bit too weak? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ But apparently not. Someone on the list by the name of Nathaniel.E.Baker, not only decided that this was spam, but contacted my ISP to have me banned for being a spammer because of this message (the content of which was not sent to the ISP.) Fortunately, I use a small wonderful, Free Software friendly ISP (Eskimo North) and they know me and know that I would never send spam, so they contacted me to tell me about the complaint and there were no bad repercussions there. But since I run a GNU/Linux & Free Software Beginners group (currently meeting at the IBM building the second Wednesday of each month) with a mailing list of several hundreds of people, if I have gotten on any spam lists anywhere unbeknownst to me due to this message, it could be devastating for GNUbies. Especially now, the next meeting is tomorrow and the mailing for this meeting went out right AFTER the spam complaint was made. I have gotten messages bouncing back that have never done so before. I just hope nothing else was done that could have the effect of preventing people who want to attend from recieving their announcements. If the message I sent is against any guidelines, please let me know what they are. I would also like to request of anybody who thinks a message constitutes spam when it has a valid non-forged From line and/or Return address to please contact that person before trying to have them dumped from their ISP and before taking any other similarly drastic actions. I am sorry for having to bring this up before the whole list, but I doubt that I will ever post here again and wanted to put in the request that any "alleged spammer" be told of the allegation first if inadvertently violating policy before drastic measures are taken in the future. I don't want this to happen to anybody else. I am sorry if my message in any way violated the policies of this list. -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
