My reaction was a bit different from others. My first thought was "Do the links actually go back to LOPSA or is this a phish? Having the link go to lopsa.org first was very good, even if it did perform an immediate redirect to the vendor site.
On 2014 Jun 26, at 11:36 , Adam Levin <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with Philip, and while my initial gut reaction was to complain about > spam and immediately opt-out, it does (or at least it *can*) benefit LOPSA to > be able to show that a large percentage of the membership are opted in to > receive these messages from sponsors. > > Frankly, while I do hate spam myself, and yes I would qualify the message as > UCE, I think if there's any organization out there that I could trust a bit > more to 1) limit the number of emails to be reasonable and 2) make sure that > the content is at least moderately relevant to my membership, it would be > LOPSA. > > So I think I'm ok with this. > > Thanks for the explanation, Matt and Philip. > > -Adam > > > On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Philip Kizer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26 Jun 2014, at 7:12, Will Dennis wrote: > > It meets my definition of "unsolicited commercial email"... I was not aware > > that LOPSA had cut advertising deals for revenue. (And yes, if it was > > O'Reilly or whatever, I'd be equally surprised and disappointed.) > > I'm not sure how long you've been a member, but this is one of the things > that did happen more frequently in previous years. It's just been a while > since we've had a sponsor make use of the (1 or 2 times a year) benefit. > > As Matt said, it's a benefit offered to LOPSA sponsors, and the fact that > you're seeing such announcements again in some ways is actually a really good > thing since it means LOPSA indeed has new corporate sponsorship to both show > support of LOPSA as an organization and provide resources to help with > organizational goals. > > > On Jun 26, 2014, at 1:31 AM, Atom Powers <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just because it is something you don't wan't doesn't make it "spam". On the > > other hand, I can see how this could get out of hand fairly easily. Can > > somebody on the board direct us to the policy that governs such email > > advertisements? > > I'm no longer on the board and I can't currently speak to the "opt out" > situation, but regarding the policy, see the following two related items. > First, the actual policy: > > https://governance.lopsa.org/LOPSA_Policies/Sponsorship > > [...] > The Development Committee may, at its discretion > * create differing levels of recognition based on sponsorship source, type, > or amount > [...] > > and what the committee has set (and published) for sponsorship rewards (as > already linked to by Matt): > > https://lopsa.org/Sponsorships > > See the last bullet item in each of the Gold and Platinum sponsorship levels > that mention email to members as an option. > > > Overall you should actually see this message as a sign of health of LOPSA, at > least I do and though I have no need of their service, I definitely welcome > them as a LOPSA sponsor! > > > -philip > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ ---- "The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue." Edward R Murrow (1964) Mark McCullough [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
