[COLUG] Companies that support a custom distribution

[Chad A. Wilson]

Pat Collins wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 23:09:13 +0000, "Angelo McComis" <740 at sciotoreserve.org>
> wrote :
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>>> Ok, so the commercial post work-around is to have someone post a question
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>> and then respond with what services you offer.   Good to know.
>>
>> Pat
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>> I disagree.  It did not register with me as being a commercial post the
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> way the exchange transpired.
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>> If I needed a service or advice, and someone on-list could help, I would
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> much prefer to send my business to someone on the list first if possible.,
> rather than someone I don't know.
>   
>
> Just my opinion, but....
>
> http://www.colug.net/mailing_list/ doesn't say no commercial posts unless
> posted in response to a question.  It says:
>
>
> Please -- no commercial, for sale, or jobs posts in the main list; jobs
> posts have their own list; commercial or for sale are just off-topic
> everywhere; Repeat offenders will be silently removed from the list.
>
> I take that as no commercial posts on the list, period.
>
> If I wanted ads, I would subscribe to a yahoo group.
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>
> Pat
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Seems to me to be in the spirit of the purpose of a LUG.  The whole 
point of the list is to help people solve problems and answer 
questions.  If someone asks about a service, and another replies that 
they can offer said service, where's the issue?  It would be a different 
story if someone blindly solicited said service, but as I see it, 
stopping people from providing an answer/solution to someone's problem 
is totally contradictory to the purpose/spirit of a 
LUG/mailing-list/support group.

Hell let's take it one step further, the earlier posts asking about a 
local Fry's equivalent, if someone was a Microcenter employee, and 
suggested Microcenter, should they be banned?  How about the guy who 
asked the question in the first place?  If you want to be fascist about 
it, I'm sure there's plenty more to ban, under the letter of the rule, 
not the spirit.