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

[Mike Broome]

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

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Mike Broome
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