In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/09/2007
at 10:00 AM, Steve Comstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>At the same time, I understand and respect the tradition of usenets
>and listservs being mostly promotion-free
>forums for the exchanging of ideas.
The actual tradition is that on Usenet you abide by the charter and on
a listserv you abide by the policies of the list owner. Some news
groups have charters explicitly permitting certain types of
announcements. Darren has approved some announcements.
So my take is that if you ask Darren, he approves and you note in you
message that Big D has approved it, nobody will have legitimate
grounds for complaints.
>So one idea someone suggested was to build an opt-in
>list of people who wish to be kept current on courses
>and other offerings we have available. So if anyone else is
>interested in being on my opt-in list, let me know.
Personally I'd rather see approved announcements posted here. If you
do set up your own list, be sure that you use confirmed (closed loop)
subscriptions.
--
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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