------------------------------ On Fri, May 3, 2013 00:35 BST Rosanne DiMesio wrote: >On Thu, 2 May 2013 23:26:24 +0100 (BST) >Hin-Tak Leung <ht...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: >> >> - "volunteer" is what it means: "volunteer". To try to make anybody >> "volunteer" in any activity any manner which is less than whole-heartedly >> willingly, sounds wrong. >> > >Nobody's trying to make anyone volunteer. I doubt anyone will. > >> There is no reason why the AppDB shouldn't work that way. i.e. just deal >> with the persistent ones, and let the individual readers skip over the >> occasional rest as they come. > >And who do you propose should "deal with" the persistent spammers? people who are bothered by them, or people who are paid to spend such time. I am neither. To be honest, i am more bothered by this thread (in a list which i subscribe to) than spam on appdb (which i don't). >> To ban such exchanges - between people who ask for help and might even offer >> incentives, and those who can offer help but not willing/possible to commit >> to a regular role - seem over-zealous. > >We have a perfectly good user's forum for such exchanges. > >-- >Rosanne DiMesio <dime...@earthlink.net>
