16 Feb
2003
16 Feb
'03
2:20 p.m.
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Jay West wrote:
So, if on-topic SPAM is allowed here as Tony requests
above... guess we
allow posting by crisis, and MBG, and keyways, and imsai.net, oh, and all
the scrap dealers... but it's ok as long as it doesn't appear too often. Ok,
I have no problem with that. All the companies mentioned deal in
businesses that are basically on-topic. Heck, every message I post has an
advert for VintageTech.
All sarcasm aside... If the membership at large wants
to allow on-topic
adverts, that's fine. But don't make it hard on ME to moderate in the
future - for one example out of many - I suspect Tony's definition of "too
often" (wrt adverts appearing) is different from Sellams, which is different
from Jerome's, etc.
I just object to obvious spam as an involuntary reaction. Now that that
problem has been cleared up (I still receive the occasional spam to
foo(a)siconic.com but there is nothing to be done about that) there is
nothing for me to piss and moan over in that regard. David Dunn's posting
was not spam at all. He was just saying, "Hey, if you know a company that
is trying to keep a legacy system alive, call us." There's nothing wrong
with a little capitalism here and there. Gotta pay the mortgage somehow.
BTW, I am taking <foo(a)siconic.com> out of service for the most part. I
finally took the time to figure out how to create filters in PINE (it was
quite simple). So now all my CC correspondence will be done from
<vcf(a)vintage.org> (or rather <vcf(a)siconic.com> as I still haven't figured
out how to configure my mail server properly, but either domain is valid).
So anyway, please update your address books as I will only be checking
foo occasionally and will delete it entirely in a few weeks. Ok, I'll
probably make it an alias to "vcf".
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