[olug] Unix Tip Ridiculousness

[m0ntar3 at cox.net]

Ditto.

> 
> From: Eric Penne <epenne at yahoo.com>
> Date: 2003/02/25 Tue AM 09:41:26 EST
> To: olug at olug.org
> Subject: [olug] Unix Tip Ridiculousness
> 
> 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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