i flamed compupic; i still feel justified. i am sorry if i was overreacting as i phrased the response as "the list feels XXX" when i should have said "i feel XXX". i know most of you have heard of and use freshmeat. the point of my flame was that some random company announcing their software on the list is an unsolicited email on a topic we could find out about elsewhere if we wanted to. this list is not, i feel, the place to point out every new piece of software that comes around---go subscribe to the freshmeat newsletter if you want that--i do. the points of my flame are threefold: 1) please include some clue about what your software does---this email was information free as a primary source (ie i dont want to open up a web browser to get the meat of the matter). 2) i had no idea compupic was an austin company, or that there were subscribers on the list who were related to it, and that omar had previously talked to these folks. 3) i get approximately 2 spams per week to siglinux-owner@ from companies who obviously trawl LUG databases for addresses, each of which i give a personal and thought-out flame to. i admit this was "personally" addressed, but so are some of the spams-- using the information i obviously entered by hand (ie no caps, verbatim what i entered) into the database to present a "personalized" feel-- which was no doubt created by a perl script :( i've gotten only one reply from any company that's done this (out of say 50), so i can't exactly assume theres someone at the other end of the line that cares in the generic case. i apologize for the bad light i've shed on the group as a result of this, and will apologize personally to the compupic folks. but, if it happens again (not by compupic i'm sure, as they have no doubt been chastened), i will likely react in similar fashion unless it's exceedingly clear that theres something of local interest about the post--let that be a warning to you. if enough folks feel im overstepping my bounds as protector of the list, i'll step down if theres someone reliable to take it over--i don't want to be a nazi standing on one side of a line by myself. i have altruistic intentions as well as a personal desire to read every post that comes over the list and into my mailbox, but more than that i want siglinux to be useful in a way i can't find ALG-l to be---it's tooooo high traffic for someone with other things to do in the day to participate in throughout the day. sorry if that's not what the group wants, and if thats really the case i'll stand back and shut up. peace. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
