[Dundee] LUG submissions from Mars - Open Letter

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You should give the people the choice.

Regards

Steven

On Saturday 09 November 2002 10:01 am, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Good point.
>
> It was intended to be an (occasional) digest from the Aberdeen group but
> getting that all sorted seems to have proved to be more of a harassment
> than .. well you get the picture.
>
> I will see that the Aberdeen digests are cancelled.
>
> Duncan
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven A. McIntosh" <steven@mcintosh-group.com>
> To: <dundee@mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 8:54 AM
> Subject: [Dundee] LUG submissions from Mars - Open Letter
>
> > Dear all
> >
> > I was horrified when I opened my e-mail client and found bandwidth hogged
>
> by
>
> > e-mails that I had not requested.  Yes you all know the feeling SPAM had
> > arrived in my box.  Was it trying to sell me something?  Was it trying to
>
> con
>
> > me?  No! it was trying to inform me on a subject which is close to my
>
> heart.
>
> > LINUX
> >
> > Whilst it is superficially a good idea to disseminate knowledge, you have
>
> to
>
> > be a willing party to this sharing or it becomes an infringement.
> >
> > Let me try to explain.
> >
> > Let us assume that it is felt by the democratic majority that it is a
> > good idea to get digests from other LUG's.  It appears we have Aberdeen,
> > what next, Falkirk, Scottish, Edinburgh.  Is that enough, what about the
> > rest
>
> in
>
> > Scotland, what about England, the UK, Europe, The WORLD ?
> >
> > What then as we drown in information and have to spend all day down
>
> loading
>
> > the latest epistle from Abu Dhabi ?
> >
> > But I digress.
> >
> > In order for something to be of benefit you have to give the people in
> > receipt of this benefit the choice.  What choice do we have, when the
> > next digest from The Mars Linux User Group drops through our open e-mail
> > letter boxes.
> >
> > Can you refuse it, yes of course, but that requires work, and eventually
>
> the
>
> > deny file gets so big it gets ugly, I don't like ugly, which is kinda
>
> ironic.
>
> > So you follow a link to unsubscribe, only to find out that you are not
> > actually a member. So what next. There is only one course of action,
> > unsubscribe from the LUG that you joined in the first place.
> >
> > I don't like the options.
> >
> > It funny that this situation is here as it reminds me very much of a
>
> recent
>
> > court case, where people had to use a certain browser because they used a
> > certain OS. Does this mean that we have to get all news because we wan't
> > local news and MEETINGS (Dundee or Perth).
> >
> > Don't let us ANTI-TRUST you Dundee, find some way of offering a choice to
> > receive these digests so they become a benefit rather than an
>
> infringement.
>
> > Regards
> >
> > Steven
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > Steven A. McIntosh
> > Learn-and-Pass
> > 27 Glenfarg Terrace
> > Perth
> > Perthshire
> > PH2 0AP
> > Tel / Fax : +44 (0)1738 561 023
> > E-mail: steven@learn-and-pass.com
> > Web: www.learn-and-pass.com
> >
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