[olug] take this poll

[Daniel Pfile]

On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 12:09 PM, Jeremy Bettis wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dave Burchell [mailto:burchell at inebraska.com]
>>
>> to the OLUG list with their comments or questions about the tip if
> they
>> have any.  In this way, those who subscribe to the tips will act as a
>> sort of a filter on the tips, only forwarding and commenting on the
>> interesting ones.
>
> Exactly!  And I don't have to put up with getting 100's of useless and
> often wrong tips for every 1 that is worthy of comment.

And who's going to do that? The people on the list who can provide 
comments on the tips probably don't feel like filtering through tips 
every day and deciding if you're worthy of receiving them and said 
persons rambling about the tip. I sure don't. I will discuss them on 
the list though.

> And I don't think it matters what the majority wants.  I think if there
> is not complete consensus on this, than the tips should be off.  
> Signing
> someone up for a mailing list that they did not ask to be put on is
> spamming.  And just like it is not reasonable to ask people to just
> delete their spam for home refinancing and herbal supplements, no one
> should have to implement a mail filter or "just hit delete".

The mails aren't hitting your mailbox as 'Re: that thing we talked 
about' like spam, they always come in as '[OLUG] Unix Tip' in the 
subject, usually followed by discussion by people you know. It takes 5 
seconds, one time, to filter them all out. In the time you took to send 
that email, you could have configured a filter. Like I said before, 
send an email to the list if you don't understand how to filter mail, 
we'll help you out. Even if you use windows.

-- Daniel