In <[email protected]>, on 07/04/2011
at 07:55 PM, Ed Gould <[email protected]> said:
>I was going to write you off list but since you brought it up. There
>is a on going advertisement on the list here that started as a minor
>annoyance and become a major pita. That is the bandwidth pig on
>IBM-MAIN of mfnet or what ever it's called. IMO it should be moved
>off to a separate list. The constant announcements of features and
>bugs and trial offers is getting past noise and is worth setting up a
>spam filter for.
While I wouldn't mind seeing those posts reduced in size and
frequency, and in more of a tombstone format, I questionable whether
they are advertisements. Certainly brief announcements of new
mainframe software products and of new releases are useful.
OTOH, an official set of guidelines on where the line is would be
nice.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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