On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 08:50:47PM -0700, Carlos Duque wrote: } Actually, I wonder just how happy the State of Maryland would be know the } amount of time this fellow expends pontificating on topics far removed } from any work for the Department of Elections.
It certainly seems ill-advised to use a work-related email address for non-work activities, but there is no guarantee that his workplace has any policy on what he is allowed to use his email address for, nor is there any reason to believe that he is billing his employer for the time he spends posting. } A troll is a troll is a troll. Trolls spam. Span is odious in any form. You seem to have a nonstandard definition of spam there. Spam, in general, is unsolicited commercial email. Trolls are rarely trying to sell anything. There is also some question as to whether Mark is a troll. Sure, he says obnoxious things, but some of what he says is at least thought-provoking. Furthermore, the posts that attempt to correct his wild statements are often edifying. } This long time lurker, and beneficiary of the discussions, says: Stop the } spam. I'm going to go with the slippery slope and futility argument here, and say "suck it up." It's poor policy to start banning people, and it's ultimately futile since email addresses are easy to come by. Beyond that, in any online community there will be annoyances; that's what the pretty little delete button is for. In fact, if your email program is clever, you can filter out everything he writes and never see it in the first place. If it's especially clever, it can filter out all replies to anything he's ever written. } Carlos --Greg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
