[NTLUG:Discuss] Press Release

[Kendall Clark]

>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Baker <sjbaker1 at airmail.net> writes:

    Steve> It's rather hard on people to tell them off for that kind
    Steve> of post...  but I agree that if we all posted every use of
    Steve> Linux in every company for whom we work, there would
    Steve> probably be a hundred of these a month and it would get
    Steve> *really* objectionable.

Thanks for seconding the point I've tried repeatedly to make.

But, for the record, here's exactly what I said, and it hardly
qualifies as "telling someone off":

       >Uh, that's not really appropriate for this list.

That's it. That's the grand total of what I said in response to an
inappropriate post. If that counts as telling someone off, what I
think of as telling someone off is likely to seem like verbal murder.

As for the parameters of this list, they have so far been a matter of
oral history and rough consensus. Part of a list administrator's job
is to make judgment calls about what is and what isn't
on-topic. That's what I was trying to do.

I remember a time when people would email a list administrator
*before* posting a message that might possibly be off-topic, just to
make sure it was ok. I guess those days are long gone.

<Kendall/>