[TriLUG] OT - survey needs people, pays $100

[Chris Bullock]

On Thursday 27 February 2003 03:29 pm, Mike Broome wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:32:14PM -0500, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> > You thought it would be a good opportunity to earn a little extra
> > income, even though they require that you *must* earn at least 100K
> > already.  Good grief.  The people who need a little extra income
> > don't earn nearly that much.  No, at least the way you presented it,
> > it comes across as just a slick way for people to market their product
> > to people that would have the money to buy it.  And that, in my book,
> > is spam, which doesn't belong on this list, especially since I still
> > have yet to see what this has to do with Linux.
>
> Speaking as a normal list subscriber -- since I have no one else to
> speak for in the context of trilug ;) -- I don't see any problem with
> this post.  It's as much on-topic or off-topic as many of the other
> off-topic posts that are sent to the trilug list since it does relate to
> new technology.  And Jason did mark it [OT] which is the Right Way to
> handle off-topic posts.  If you aren't interested in off-topic posts,
> the delete it using the method appropriate for your mailer of choice.
>
> I didn't take it the way you did as "just a slick way for people to
> market their product ...".  I might be convinced to call it spam if it
> was solicitation coming directly from the company that's doing the
> survey, but coming from another trilug member who is passing along what
> he thought might be of interest to other technical folks ... no, I don't
> take that to be spam.  But you're certainly welcome to think that.
>
> BTW, do we have an AUP for the list?  I don't see one mentioned on the
> mailman interface page.  (If there was one sent out when I subscribed to
> the list, I don't remember it.)  I don't think we need one since, IMHO,
> the traffic and usage is under control, but I'm curious to know if we do.
>
> Mike

I agree totally with Mike, I see this as a resource for all the users 
subscribed in this group.  I see this as a Linux users group, not a Linux 
only group.  I feel it is merely a place where a group of "Linux users" can 
group together and exchange ideas and resources.  It seems strange how some 
off topic subjects continue on and on and on simply by merely who started the 
post and who it interests, while others like this one get a flame war started 
over what is "appropriate" for discussion.  Again, I feel this is for Linux 
users to exchange ideas, so if you do not like the topic take you finger and 
press the delete key.

--chris
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Chris Bullock