> It is these immature acts that alienate companies from the linux
> community. Paul was accused of spamming, simply because there are
> mailing lists for new software, it was said, there should be nothing
> about that on the siglinux list. [...] I'd like to know if
> *anyone* other than Chris had a problem with Paul posting that
> photodex was out.
At first I was quite upset to see the message. It looked like
common ordinary spam and I have NO problem treating spammers as
harshly as is possible. But, I also noticed the email was
personalized in a way that was more than your tyipical form letter so
I gave the sender the benefit of the doubt and assumed he was
specifically sending the advertisement to this list. That lessens the
seriousness of it, but still would be problematic.
Why? A couple reasons: I do not recall the post as having made any
mention that it was an Austin company (it may have, but I do not
recall it saying so). It was also not clear that the post was made at
the request of members of the list and the sender's name was not one
which I recognized. (but I have not been on the list that long) While
it may have been a "good" advertisement, it was very poorly
constructed and QUITE easily mistaken as spam.
I applaud the list maintainer for taking an active role in keeping
spammers at bay. In this case, it may just be a false alarm. In that
case, I am sure the poster has learned his lesson and will make sure
that future posts do not smell like spam.
> There aren't many austin companies selling linux software, [...]
> This is not the next microsoft, it's a fairly small austin company
> that we should support.
Well, microsoft or not, proprietary software is proprietary
software. It is hard to get too excited about something that most
people here cannot use.
For what it's worth, I work for a small Austin company that writes
Linux software too, but we do not post ads here. If every austin area
company posted ads for their new releases, the list would be a lot
less pleasant.
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