[wellylug] Important: Rule Breaking Process

[Mark Foster]

>
> Please understand that I object to advertising as well, and that isn't
> what I'm driving at.
>
> What annoys me is people making a fuss and inventing cheesy rules to deal
> with some poor sod accused of advertising when he quite clearly wasn't.
> What is at fault is the DEFINITION of advertising.
>
> If so-called "advertising" includes offering dibs on gear to your
> mates, or flagging a Linux job you might know about in town, fine - just
> define it somewhere. A simple "no advertising" is not clear and
> concise enough, because until recently I took that to mean commercial
> gain.


The noise of people complaining about the 'advertising' is going to push 
me off WellyLug long before the advertising itself.

Its not like we get a few posts a day.  Given it was at least in some way 
Linux-related (nice of him to give the LUG first dibs on _free_ hardware 
suitable for Linux use!) and that the volume of these posts on the whole 
is LOW - the fact that so many people seem to be up in arms over it to me 
has blown this entire thing out of proportion.

Sure, it may have been appropriate for Michael to run it by the list admin 
first... _maybe_.  More, I think, that the 'odd post' (and I do mean odd, 
not the norm) should be overlooked as it cant be said that this was for 
the benefit of anyone but the LUG.

Getting too anal and nitpicky about this sort of thing is just going to 
alienate members.  The rules are all well and good but there is such a 
thing as 'too many rules'.

I liked WellyLUG when members focused on, well, being a LUG, and not 
squealing because a list member posted something that could be construed 
as an advertisement in the minds of some!

Mark.