At 08:11 PM 3/8/97 -0800, Kynn wrote:
>Hello, Alan's brain, is this thing on? Not all "advertisements"
>are spam, and it would be perfectly legitimate for someone to
>run a mailing list equivalent of the various *.forsale.*
>Usenet groups, as long as everyone on the list _wanted_ to be
>there.
Pejorative aside, spam is any unwanted, unsolicited advertisement,
and largely in the eye of the be-getter. I especially do not want
ads on my mailing lists. If you allow them on yours, so be it.
>"For sale" advertisements are _not_ automatically spam. Sheesh.
They ^are^ on my mailing lists and I have made that very clear to
my subscribers. Posting an advertisement to my list, no matter
how legitimate, will get a subscriber removed immediately. I
have a great deal of tolerance for spam sent to me personally,
but when it posts to my lists I feel as if the poster is trying
to take control of my list for his own purposes. This I cannot
allow.
>And for Brian -- no, I don't know of any, but you might try
>www.liszt.com as a starting point of your search; it includes
>links to other good places which I can't remember offhand the
>URLs for (such as the PAML list).
Invite Brian to your list(s).
Alan
ASHandRR@TGN.net
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