[olug] Unix Tip Ridiculousness

[Eric Penne]

How is this any different than me sending an email everyday telling you
about what I did today?  It is helpful to some but not all.  It
generates discussion and teaches.

It is 1 email.  It is all text.  Delete it.

Eric

--- Dave Hull <dphull at insipid.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Christopher Cashell wrote:
> 
> > The point of this list *is* to help people.  But these tips don't
> help
> > all people.  As you said yourself, they may not help me.  Judging
> from
> > some of the other comments, I'm not the only one.
> > 
> > Whether or not we should have a separate mailing list is debatable.
> > Personally, I'd rather have that than our current situation, where
> I'm
> > forced to receive what I consider Spam.  However, I may be in the
> > minority here.
> 
> I'm probably part of that minority too. I find some of the tips
> useful, others 
> are not so useful, but in my opinion that is not the point. I think
> it's bad 
> form to subscribe a mailing list to another mailing list. As someone
> said 
> before, spam is not about content, it's about consent.
> 
> Someone could have sent a message to the list pointing out the Unix
> Tips 
> mailing list and tell folks how they can subscribe to it on their
> own, but to 
> subscribe the entire list to another list is bad nettiquette. Sure, I
> can 
> create a procmail filter to send the messages to /dev/null, but that
> puts the 
> burden on me to do something to not receive mail I don't want.
> 
> Isn't it better to have to opt-in to receiving something rather than
> having to 
> opt-out of receiving it?
> 
> -- 
> Dave Hull
> http://insipid.com
> 
> Contending with insulation:
> Isn't it fluffy, friable and itchily agreeable?  What's this 'contend
> with insulation' stuff?
> -- Steve Nordquist, Re: Linux'izing the home, 11/30/00
> 
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