[wellylug] Important: Rule Breaking Process

[Mark Foster]

>
>> The noise of people complaining about the 'advertising' is going to push
>> me off WellyLug long before the advertising itself.
>
> Insightful post, Mark. One could also suggest that a *_policy or *_admin
> list be created for several that I'm a member of. That way, list
> subscribers wouldn't receive the high volume of policy discussion which
> takes place following a perceived breach of the main list's rules.
>
> Anyway, in the absence of a wellylug_admin list, I have a question related
> to the advertising policy under discussion.

wellylug_org exists. I'm pretty sure its mentioned on the web somewhere.


> Let's say I am looking for Linux hosting in NZ, or am looking to co-locate
> a server with a Linux-friendly host here in Wellington. This is an obvious
> thing to ask on a Linux LUG list, as many of the members will be involved
> in the industry, and are normally those who have purchased such services
> themselves.
>
> The response to this question is most likely going to be commercial in
> nature, and may originate directly from a company selling such services.
>
> So, should such questions be asked on the 'advertising' list, or should
> they be posted requesting responses to be made off-list? The latter option
> would mean that other list readers may not get the benefit of the
> information.

IMHO the response would also be 'user opinion' (in fact more this than 
direct commercially oriented responses) which is likely to be of more use 
than a commercially oriented response - becuase it reflects something 
closer to 'truth' (from a user POV)... which is why usually you would post 
this sort of query to the LUG in the first place.

Which comes back to the issue that where theres no personal gain, its not 
advertising, and shouldn't be somethin that a song and dance is created 
over.

Now having said my bit, I would reccomend that we go back to talking about 
Linux stuff.

But I would strongly encourage the Org group - and i'm doing this on the 
open list deliberately - to consider exactly _how much_ policing is infact 
required on here. YOu have a good LUG list, a small amount of noise is 
always likely - noting the larger amount of noise that resulted from the 
complaints etc it'd have been far more useful in the great scheme of 
thinsg simply to allow a smaller amount of not-for-profit 
useful-to-members posts to be dealt with privately, by those tasked with 
the actual job of policing the list - and for the rest of us to 'get over 
it'.  Because being too nazi-like on this _will_ push members away!

Sigh.

Mark.