At 05:30 PM 09/19/2001 +0200, Andy McDowell wrote:
>Spam... since when was asking questions and wanting to learn something spam??
>
Asking questions and wanting to learn is not spam.
Crossposting your questions to multiple unrelated mailing lists, on the
other hand, technically IS spam and considered bad netiquette in general.
It becomes especially annoying when you start getting crossposted followups
from people from "other" lists who didnt bother to edit the Reply-to: line,
which compounds the spam, because most of the time, these replies are
either people answering the question in a way that relates to the topic of
/thier/ list (i.e. Oracle, in this case), or people from those lists that
end up flaming the original crossposter for crossposting and asking OT
questions.
Yes, I suppose all you have to do in such a case is "just hit the delete
key". But the point is, there ARE certain guidelines (aka "rules") that are
explicitly in place on this, and most every other mailing list. As such,
you shouldnt HAVE to hit the delete key, because people are expected to
behave properly in such a forum. And when they don't, you tell them nicely
at first the cease the offending behavior.
If you invited someone to your house and they torched up a cigarette, you
wouldn't just move yourself to another room and lock the door behind you
just so you wouldn't have to smell the smoke, would you?
Aloha,
mel
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