----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Scott Belford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 9:51 AM Subject: Re: [luau] Re: Graphic art design
| On Thursday 17 October 2002 09:34 am, Neal & Gay Timon wrote: | | > | > I was also considering asking about hiring someone to help me (you students | > must still be hungry and need money). That isn't my idea of spam, but it | > may not be something you want on this group. Perhaps you would rather just | > reply that this group discourages that sort of request and suggest an | > alternative. | | As a community very anxious to see newcomers like your self appreciate the | joys and challenges of running linux, I must say that we are in desperate | need of list policy clarification. I am certain that this will be done in | the next few days. I am personally drafting our often talked about never | completed list policy that I hope many will chew on and improve. | | For a person like yourself, there is no legitimate path of communication to | reach our linux community except for the LUAU mailing list. I personally do | not have a problem with someone asking if there is help on the list. This is | not of the same class of "spam" as posting to the list asking us to purchase | diet pills. If your spam consists of trying to give money to the local | community for help, then we need to find a way to digest this spam. | | I incorporated a business in Georgia years ago that I may finally "launch" | here. Maybe it will help. The model is of an employee owned computer | service company. It can co-exist quite peacefully with LUGs (linux user | groups). A person like yourself requests help on the company's site, and | registered "technicians" bid on it. You can take the first bid or the | lowest, depending on your rush. You pay the service, the service pays the | "technician" about 90% and keeps the little amount for overhead. Every | "technician" is an owner in the company proportional to the business they | bring in, and as such have a proportional say over how the 10% is allocated. | As an Open Sourced business utilizing my principles of the Democratization of | Capitalism, all financial decisions are in the open and can be publicly | decided. Anyhow, just a tangent, but it may help in the future. | | In my humble opinion, it is okay to politely post your request for help. | | R. Scott Belford | _______________________________________________ | LUAU mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
