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Re: #@$#@#$:10BaseT networking made easy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Walsh)
Tue Feb 1 15:32:43 1994
From: Chris Walsh <mack23@andre.mech.nwu.edu>
To: Bernard.Hecker@mail.cc.trincoll.edu (Bernard Hecker)
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 13:50:43 -0600 (CST)
Cc: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9402011850.AA28707@mail.trincoll.edu> from "Bernard Hecker" at Feb 1, 94 01:50:51 pm
Bernard Hecker writes:
>
> I think it's obtrusive, the same way that a salesperson leaning over from
> the next booth at the pub and interrupting a professional discussion would
> be obtrusive.
>
I think it is obtrusive the way junk snail-mail from Farallon is.
In any event, all mail directed at a mailing list should conform to
the guidelines for the list. It's the responsibility of those who mail
to a list to know what those guidelines are (if any), and to adhere to
them. Absent any quidelines, I do not think junk such as this is a priori
unacceptable. If the list feels it to be, one alternative would be to
set up a closed list. I think a closed list is more analogous to a booth
at a pub. This case is more like a salesman showing up at a pub's widely
advertised "Geek Night" and trying to find customers. :^)
My sincerest apologies if this message itself is considered off topic!
Chris
