[wellylug] \"People\'s Choice Community Member of the Year\"

[David Murray]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Mark Foster wrote:

> I don't necessarily disagree with you, however please consider that in the 
> situation above you've defined the message as 'spam' because of the fact it 
> was repeated; you yourself have just said that posting emails about linux 
> community events is OK.
>
> So really its not that the message was 'spam' but more that repeat copies of 
> the same message was unwelcome.
>
> Your tone is pretty harsh frankly, and Karin IMHO doesn't deserve it.

Spam is spam. End of story.

But one genuine once-a-week email roundup of events that consists of 
a list of headlines with 2-3 sentence summary and URLs pointing to 
webpages with the full details ... could be useful and welcome way for 
LUGs to communicate with each other.

In 2005 at least one other person in WellyLUG has been told off for 
posting spam/adverts about stuff that could be considered to be of
general interest to WellyLUGgers.

Karen's recent "roundup" posts were much more spam-like in character than
the other person's email was. She posted considerably more of it. He
posted the one email, and his intent, as I read it, was genuinely to 
point something out that may have been of interest to other WellyLUGgers. 
Her intent is to promote and to advertize. He got well and truly stomped 
on. She is being tolerated.

Please explain the difference.


Regards

David Murray