On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Dennis Bagley wrote: > We have received an apology, which I forwarded to the other officers.
Would you please forward that to the list, as the situation affects all subscribers? > I am willing to accept that perhaps he was "over-enthusiastic" rather than > intentionally "malicious" . IMHO, "over-enthusiastic" would mean subscribing to the list (which he is not subscribed, BTW), maybe posting a few messages, then saying "hey, we have this linux certification course, blah blah blah, maybe a discount for rlug memebers, etc". "malicious" is going to the rlug list site, pulling up the subscriber list, de-obfuscating the entries, and sending out commercial email to an unsolicited group, hence the definition of "unsolicited commercial email". Sorry for the harsh reply, but you've hit a sore spot for me. Generally I don't mind if commercial email is sent to me if 1) it's the result of a pre-existing business relationship (think amazon.com emails, etc), and 2) You have the option to cancel without repercussion. Conversely, what he did was spam, plain and simple. RF _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
