On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 10:19:03PM +1100, Aussie wrote:
> <<SNIPPED>>
> > If somebody was selling a 17" monitor for $200 on the list, I would
> > be scrumaging for more of their details and would be calling them at
> > work, etc :)
>
> Do you invite people to send you emails (even from this list) where the
> sole purpose is to sell something?? Isn't this uninvited?? It might not
> be unwelcome (but it could be that too), but it would certainly be
> uninvited.
> Make your choice, is unwanted/uninvited advertising spam or not??
If it's relevant, and sent by a SLUG "member", it's not SPAM.
If it's not relevant, then it's most likely not welcome (although possibly
not spam).
If it's not from a SLUG "member", then it's spam.
> If it is, then nobody should EVER advertise anything for sale on this
> list, as that would be uninvited and possibly unwelcome to some.
If you've subscribed to this list then you've already invited others to
send you slug-related (which thus linux-related) emails. These could take
many forms, including for sale ads.
The only possibly exception here is commercial ads. As far as I'm concerned,
as long as they are from SLUGers, they are not too frequent, and they are
marked as commerical ads then I see no problem with them being posted under
the same rules as above.
> > > If we are going to start referring to proper nettiquite, maybe we
> > > had better do it correctly. No more sigs over 2 lines of 40 chars.
> >
> > I think 2-5 lines @ 78 characters is acceptable by my picky standards..
> > Anything beyond that I find a little annoying.
>
> Annoying doesn't come into the "standards of sig's with nettiquite. It
> has been accepted for many, many years that a sig should be a max of 2
> lines, 40 chars per line. Only in recent years has it been more widely
> acceptable to have larger and larger sigs. By your above standards, my
> signature is quite acceptable/
Since when? In about 10 years of net use (and a few years of BBSes before
that) I've never come across a valid claim that sigs should be a max of
2 lines. The more normal "standard" seems to be up to 4 lines long.
In fact, from the "Signature, Finger, & Customized Headers FAQ" (available
at ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/signature_finger_faq ) :
} From: FAQ Editor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
} Subject: 3.0 What to Put in Your Signature and Finger Files
}
} It is good netiquette to keep your signature to four lines or fewer.
} And many news posters, such as some versions of inews(1), will not
} post an article that has a signature with more than four lines in
} it. So, put large large pictures, your philosophy of life , etc. in
} your finger files or in your Web pages and point people to those in
} your signature.
}
} For signatures it's a good idea to keep the width less than 75
} characters so that if your signature is included in a followup
} preceded by an attribution character (like `> '), each line will
} still be on one line.
Scott.
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