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Subject: Re: warning: spamming confirmed opt-in lists
From: J C Lawrence <claw @ kanga . nu>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 21:37:24 -0800
To: murr rhame <murr @ vnet . net>
Cc: List Managers Mailing list <list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM>
In-reply-to: Message from murr rhame <murr@vnet.net> of "Mon, 03 Mar 2003 22:08:10 EST." <Pine.SOL.4.33.0303032136020.4606-100000@katie.vnet.net>
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On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 22:08:10 -0500 (EST) 
murr rhame <murr@vnet.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, J C Lawrence wrote:
>>> On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, murr rhame wrote:
 
> I'm certain there are many lists where it would be appropriate to ban
> _all_ advertisements.

The most common form of advertising I get, and which I expressly
encourage and allow is:

  <good, well-reasoned and on-topic reply to the list here>

  Oh yeah, and I'm looking for work|have a great product for this|work
  at a company which does things like this|wrote the best version of
  this I ever saw|etc.

> You smithed a couple of nicely phrase paragraphs (below).  With a
> little list-specific tuning, these could make a nice addition to many
> list charters.

Thanks.  Please feel free to adapt and use freely.

>> Posting to the list may be considered analogous to having a
>> conversation in my living room using bull horns while the windows are
>> open and everyone has tape recorders. There is no secrecy, or control
>> of the dissemination of data once it is posted.

That one is particularly popular with my list members.  It gets
frequently quoted or referred to off-list.

-- 
J C Lawrence                
---------(*)                Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. 
claw@kanga.nu               He lived as a devil, eh?		  
http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/  Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.


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