Message: 1 Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:07:24 +0100 From: Richard Lewis richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Survey Message-ID: 87vcw0bnqb.wl%richard.lewis@gold.ac.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
OK, at the risk of sounding like some sort of purist, I'm just going to come out with it: this sort of multi-posting to LUG mailing lists is, in my opinion, spamming. Please don't do it. It's in your own interests to refrain if you'd actually like to get a response from mailing list readers.
LUG mailing lists are great communities full of interesting and helpful people and we're very lucky that they're willing to share their knowledge and experience. Please don't abuse these communities.
Richard
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I don't believe it is spamming. It is on-topic, related, computer/software issue generally and also in this case corresponding and 2-way. Finding answers related to Linux is difficult because the user base is not huge, a sub-set in this group are techies which reduces the pool even further, then there are holidays, time away from the mailing list, sickness etc reducing further, then there are member personalities who based on either my posting or my profile, self-interest etc don't want to answer, this reduces the respondent pool even further.
Regards
Meeku