[wlug_org] I Vote to kick Michael off the main list!

[Jeremy Naylor]

At 12:06 21/03/2006, you wrote:

>FWIW, _I_ consider posts "notifying" people of "free" hardware to be too
>much like advertising[0] to evade the "no advertising" request, at least on
>their face.  It might be near the top of the slippery slope, but it's
>definitely on that slippery slope.  (Ie, if "everyone did it" then it'd
>change the character of the list significantly, and be harder to defend
>against people wanting to post other "special offers".)
>
>To be honest I'm tiring of the attempts to create exceptions to the "no
>advertising" request, or creatively interpret it to not apply to specific
>posts that people want to make "just this once".  Especially given that
>there's a perfectly good alternative list (-trade) for those who can't
>live without all those "special offers".  For legal reasons Naos doesn't
>want to host a list which consists of a series of "special offers".[1]
>
>So if you do want to have a poll about this issue I suggest:
>
>-=- cut here -=-
>Should wellylug stay with a no-advertising main list, and an advertising
>trade list, or move to a single combined list?
>(a) stay with the two separate lists
>(b) combine the lists
>-=- cut here -=-
>
>And in the latter case (combining the lists), I'll be looking to hand over
>the list to someone else to run.  The archive of every post made to the
>Wellylug list is downloadable by anyone ready to import into some other
>mailing list software.  Jeremy can provide a list of the subscribers to
>a designated person.  And Donald Gordan can update the wellylug.org.nz
>DNS to point at the new site.
>
>I'm of course happy to assist with the transition, but my point is
>that it's (deliberately) possible for Wellylug to move the mailing list
>without requiring my involvement.
>
>Ewen
>
>[0] Actually I consider it to be advertising, but "too much like
>     advertising" is sufficient for my point here.
>
>[1] And I don't really want to subscribe to a list which is filled
>     with adverts; indeed the primary reason for offering to host the
>     list was that I didn't want to subscribe to the ad-filled Yahoo
>     Groups list.  Presumably other people have a higher tolerance/need
>     for advertising than I do.

Hey Ewen,

Yeah - I second that! ;)

I'm totally on your side here, btw (of course!). :)

Thanks,

Jeremy Naylor
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