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
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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
On 21 Jun 19:52, Krishna Birth wrote:
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.
Weird, because a lot of people count irrelevant posting of an inane survey *is* spam.
Also, the user base of Linux is *HUGE*. Maybe, just maybe, it's the way that you ask that's causing you to not find answers. There's lots of people on this list that have asked questions, there's lots of them that have got the answers they were looking for, so, you know, maybe it's you that's the problem. Take a good long look at yourself, what you've posted so far, and try to see it through the eyes of long time list members. Read some of the archives. Behave properly, and you may be rewarded.
Krishna Birth krishnabirth@gmail.com
Richard Lewis wrote:
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.
I don't believe it is spamming. It is on-topic, related, computer/software issue generally [...]
It's also multi-posted to several LUGs, as Richard correctly said, and neither you nor it are anything to do with ALUG. Turn up to a meeting and maybe you'll get some answers.
Hope that explains,
-
Brett Parker -
Krishna Birth -
MJ Ray