[LUAU] List Policy Please

2008-03-27 Thread R. Scott Belford
Then please censor him in your own email account. It is not fair for us to be exposed to your personal grievances with Joe. He, as a member of our community, is free to be judged by the other members of the community absent the bias of any one person.

[LUAU] LUAU List Policy Please

2008-03-27 Thread R. Scott Belford
Six years ago personal feelings got the best of good judgment. It led me to write the following to one who was getting a bit aggressive: Then please censor him in your own email account. It is not fair for us to be exposed to your personal grievances with XXX. He, as a member of our community,

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-20 Thread Joe Linux
Jimen is on my "good guy" list. Jimen Ching wrote: On 18 Oct 2002, Warren Togami wrote: Yes, and now you're going on my blacklist. I can't stand you. Could you put me on your blacklist as well? And I'll do the same for youon mine. Thanks.--jc

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-20 Thread Joe Linux
Basically my feeling is that each person should post in a manner which is comfortable to them. If I don't want to read something I just delete it with my Delete key. For example I delete all of my own posts. Often I delete stuff on the intricacies of server set up or bulk email handling, as

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-20 Thread Joe Linux
Message Deleted as the poster often resorts to name calling as opposed to intelligent discussion. Now we have a new term and concept "Netrollism" which apparently is any discussion of group policy which is in disagreement with the self appointed list policy netiquette leader. Warren Togami

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-20 Thread Joe Linux
I actually haven't stated that the LUAU operation is lousy. What I have said is that the CLUE group doesn't suffer from these petty disagreements over how and what to post. Basically there is free and open discussion, a monthly meeting which almost always has a different person doing the

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-20 Thread Joe Linux
Quitters are losers. I'm not quitting. Warren Togami wrote: I think SVLUG policy was mentioned by Gary Sublett, who later quit the list in protest because he was completely offended by commercial posts.

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-20 Thread Dan George
That makes sense. But I think this has preoccupied enough time and Warren has a decision to make on what action he feels needs to be taken. If someone wants to conduct business with someone whose soliciting help then let them do it with personal emails do not use the list to conduct business. If

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-20 Thread Jimen Ching
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Joe Linux wrote: than just technical knowledge. A leader has to be a people person , and good politician. Leadership isn't insulting people for their opinion when they have solicited opinions in the first place. I find it extremely offensive to be labeled a troll whatever

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-19 Thread Joe Linux
Great leadership and Linux community building. What a wonderful way to treat your benefactors. Fantastic believe in freedom of opinion. Naturally you are free to feel anyway you want and do anything you want. However you have to look at what happened to Edward Baker. Perhaps this is not an

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-19 Thread Joe Linux
The problem is I'm in a different time zone MST. So I just answer the posts as the come and as most everyone is sleeping in Hawaii when I'm responding it ends up puttng mine all in a row. In all honesty it would be difficult to combine my responses in to single post as I just read the Luau

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-19 Thread Jimen Ching
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Dustin Cross wrote: A user asking for help with open source, no matter if they are a home user or an individual looking to pay someone to help them set up their business with open source is not SPAM. I agree. It seems like the word 'SPAM' has been tossed around to mean

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-19 Thread Jimen Ching
On 18 Oct 2002, Warren Togami wrote: Yes, and now you're going on my blacklist. I can't stand you. Could you put me on your blacklist as well? And I'll do the same for you on mine. Thanks. --jc -- Jimen Ching (WH6BRR) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-19 Thread Jimen Ching
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Joe Linux wrote: The problem is I'm in a different time zone MST. So I just answer the posts as the come and as most everyone is sleeping in Hawaii when I'm responding it ends up puttng mine all in a row. In all honesty it would be difficult to combine my responses in to

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-19 Thread Warren Togami
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 13:16, Jimen Ching wrote: On 18 Oct 2002, Warren Togami wrote: Yes, and now you're going on my blacklist. I can't stand you. Could you put me on your blacklist as well? And I'll do the same for you on mine. Thanks. Although I often don't agree with your

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-19 Thread Neal Gay Timon
Can we get some sort of policy on asking for someone to help you for money? I have some suggestions ( I know I wasn't asked but what the H---). Construct a list of people who would like to do projects, tutor or what ever and when someone like me inquires either refer them to or send them the

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-19 Thread Warren Togami
Scott Belford is currently drafting a proposal for list policy. We will post it to the list and request for comments. On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 17:07, Neal Gay Timon wrote: Can we get some sort of policy on asking for someone to help you for money? I have some suggestions ( I know I wasn't asked

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-19 Thread Elayne Man
Okay, let's stop (indirectly) pointing fingers here... it may have been better to personally contact Ed about his e-mails, but nobody's perfect. If you have a problem with someone, try to take it out on them personally; the whole list doesn't need to know. (Maybe something of this extent can be

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-19 Thread Warren Togami
I think SVLUG policy was mentioned by Gary Sublett, who later quit the list in protest because he was completely offended by commercial posts. On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 17:50, Elayne Man wrote: Let's learn by example experience. I remember Warren mentioning that the Silicon Valley Linux Users

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-18 Thread Joe Linux
I agree fully with you, but I guess at this point I see this as problem where a single individual is enforcing policy where no policy exists. Now you can ask is the problem do to a lack of policy or an individual who makes up policy on the spot, with little thought as he goes along. Since I

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-18 Thread Joe Linux
If you know this, how come you immediately pounce on someone for "spamming" when it's obvious in the first place that they are not Linux users? I do know I dropped Oceanic Road Runner in favor of Oceanic Earthlink for the very reason that the "SMTP" server was stalling out and we were having

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-18 Thread Joe Linux
Interestingly since I switched to Earthlink Cable, (through Oceanic) I have been getting no spam, but on my old RR account which for some reason is still active, the only thing I get is SPAM. Another benefit of Earthlink is that you get nation wide dial up included with the Hawaii cable modem

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-18 Thread Joe Linux
It seems to me, you should be the last person worried about being personally affected by SPAM. Warren Togami wrote: I personally trust that a combination of the three works very well after configuration. I have something like 99.99% effective spam filtering now, with no false positives for

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-18 Thread Warren Togami
On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 03:18, Joe Linux wrote: It seems to me, you should be the last person worried about being personally affected by SPAM. Yes, and now you're going on my blacklist. I can't stand you.

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-18 Thread al plant
Warren Togami wrote: Many of the multiple postings are the fault of Outlook Express, where in some cases if you click Send but the SMTP server is stalling, it sometimes sends it multiple times. I don't recall seeing any other mailers do this. ### Thanks for the clarification. I only

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-18 Thread Eric Hattemer
For a while, USC was on certain lists for opening their mail servers or accidentally opening them to relay. -Eric Hattemer On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 22:07, Warren Togami wrote: . not. While pattern matching is subject to occasional errors, blacklists and Vipul's Razor should NEVER have

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-18 Thread Eric Hattemer
I do have to say that Warren has a point. 8 Posts in a row all about the same subject. It would be appreciated if you could generally combine your posts into fewer. This isn't a threaded forum. -Eric Hattemer On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 06:18, Joe Linux wrote: It seems to me, you should be the

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-18 Thread Warren Togami
alone will only make your score perhaps 33% to the threshold point. - Original Message - From: Eric Hattemer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 8:37 PM Subject: Re: [luau] List Policy For a while, USC was on certain lists for opening their mail servers

RE: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-17 Thread Todd Lee
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of linuxdan Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 4:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [luau] List Policy I agree with what you depict as Spam. I believe in most situations like the starving students declaration, people are looking for a cheap way

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-17 Thread linuxdan
Dusty I agree with what you are saying. I just meant to use the starving students analogy as an example and not to point fingers. Im sure that the gentleman has legitimate questions and needs help. Im just refering to business people who could donate equipment or resources to help

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-17 Thread al plant
Dustin Cross wrote: Aloha, Come on guys, this has been blown WAY out of proportion! This was someone asking for help. The second guy said he heard about linux from the CompUSA thing and wanted help. This list used to be about helping people and not chastising them for asking for help!

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-17 Thread Dustin Cross
Aloha, I think SPAM is pretty obvious. Someone sending e-mail about joining thier porn site or send them $50 for their get rich quick program, that is SPAM. A user asking for help with open source, no matter if they are a home user or an individual looking to pay someone to help them set up

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-17 Thread Warren Togami
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 17:28, al plant wrote: At last a reasonable voice. I believe the person was only asking for help too. By the way there are some people on this list who send two or three mail postings each time they make a comment. I don't think it is intentional or spam. In fact it

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-17 Thread Warren Togami
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 18:07, Dustin Cross wrote: A user asking for help with open source, no matter if they are a home user or an individual looking to pay someone to help them set up their business with open source is not SPAM. Someone that advertises for their new opensource friendly ISP

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-17 Thread Dustin Cross
Warren, This was supposed to say it SHOULDN'T be considered a problem. I use postfix and squirrelmail for everything. I have tried some of the spam filters and they get a little more than half of it, but they also get mail that isn't SPAM some times, so I just deal with it and delete! For a

Re: [luau] List Policy

2002-10-17 Thread Warren Togami
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 18:50, Dustin Cross wrote: Warren, This was supposed to say it SHOULDN'T be considered a problem. I use postfix and squirrelmail for everything. I have tried some of the spam filters and they get a little more than half of it, but they also get mail that isn't SPAM