[107379] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: self-promotion [was: 198.32.64.12 -- Harmless mis-route or
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Tue Sep 2 21:50:48 2008
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:50:18 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <55DE80DF-3901-4436-86F6-64DF50705506@ianai.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:40:38 -0400
"Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net> wrote:
> [SNIP]
>
> Just so that I am clear on your issue here: You believe it is "okay"
> for you to put your linkedin URL in your .sig, but Gadi must not be
> allowed to put it at the top of a post?
Yes, I think that's exactly right. It's a statement of what the sender
perceives to be important about the email. I read email for the
content; having the URL at the top is an assertion by the poster that
he thinks his resume is more important than what he says. (Yes, I know
some of you are about to hit reply to say "maybe it is from Gadi".
Don't bother -- what he says is often quite valuable.)
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
