[OT] Sending ads to the mailing lists. Was: Re: [vox-tech] I'll help if I can

[Ryan Castellucci]

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On Thursday 02 October 2003 10:20 am, p@dirac.org wrote:
> Jay,
>
> This is very not OK.  Not even slightly.  You've:
>
>    * sent non-technical content to vox-tech
>    * used a crummy subject line that indicated nothing
>    * didn't use [OT] for an obviously off topic post.
>    * didn't use X-No-Archive for an obviously off topic post.
>
> All are against list rules.  I'm not even going to go into whether
> you've spammed the list or not.

It's unsolicited, and comercial in nature, and sort of bulk.
It is spam, but a relitivly mild infraction. He could have done worse. Fo=
r=20
example, harvesting the list archives, demunging them (trivialy done with=
=20
regular expressions) and emailing us all from an open proxy in=20
$THIRD_WORLD_COUNTRY with bogus forged headers.

Nobody get any ideas.

My impression on 'advertisments' on vox....

Putting a quick plug in your sig is fine, as long as your posts are=20
considered worthwile contribuions.

"For sale" ads are fine on vox, if you're trying to get rid of some rando=
m=20
computer hardware, or other geek toy, and you don't try to make a living =
off=20
of it. As above, you should not do this if you don't frequently make=20
worthwile posts

Any other thoughts?

> On Thu 02 Oct 03,  7:49 AM, Jay Strauss <me@heyjay.com> said:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > My Oracle consulting business has been on life support for the last y=
ear,
> > so about 8-9 months ago I started doing mortgages.  Last night when I
> > left the office, rates where back down below 6% for a 30 yr, and 5 3/=
8 on
> > a 15yr.  If anyone here can take advantage of a mortgage, give me a c=
all
> > at 312.587.xxxxx or shoot me an email.  I'm licensed in California.  =
I'll
> > do the
> > best I can to help you out (tell me you're from vox).
> > We've got all kinds of cool mortgage programs that I didn't know exis=
ted
> > (and wished I did) before started working here.

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