On Thursday 26 February 2004 11:23, Andrew Back wrote: > However I for one would hate to see every co-lo, domain > registrar and Linux book vendor posting adverts to the list. >
The point is that there are several employees and proprietors of service provider type businesses who are regular contributors to SLUG, and who manage to not flagrantly tout for business, while still making use of the group's "networking" opportunities. If Chris was to turn up at the Counting House tonight and buy Willie et al a pint, I might consider him an ally. Spamming LUGs should not earn him a sales bonus. As far as I can tell he has never visited us before. I think that a short factual statement, without the sales pitch, e.g. "Joe Bloggs has new co-location prices" plus a link to more information would be acceptable together with a suitable subject line, e.g. [Commercial - co-location]. That's more or less how it worked on the first technical newsgroups, which were much like our mailing list. Another rule was that you had to declare any commercial interest (including working for a competitor) in any product that you offered an opinion or information about. As our neurone has already commented; it's not that cheap, especially when you check the small print, like bandwidth charges and �40-�60 per hour for physical access. -- ray _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
