[RP TownTalk] Patch wants to know

[Lou King]

Lou
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Dwight Holmes wrote, On 7/26/2010 9:14 PM:

> I use the ignore
> and the delete options freely, and always invite others to do the
> same. It is - for me- so much easier than consternating, getting
> worked up over something that can be ignored or deleted with extreme
> ease.

Whether I/someone finds it annoying or just not interested, I don't 
think is the point. Whether it is a misuse of (town) government assets 
for commercial purposes is my point. If I remember correctly your 
Gazette example(s) did not include multiple clickable links to the 
Gazette, but you make a valid point.

I'm sorry to hear your ignore/delete solution. I think that treats the 
symptom not the illness. It supports the first spammer's rule

Rule #0: Spam is theft.
     * Angel's Commentary: Spammers believe it's okay to steal a little 
bit from each person on the Internet at once.

In this case some part of a penny of our tax dollars are being use to 
support a clearly commercial interest (outside of town). Although "The 
TownTalk mailing list is open to all Riverdale Park residents." This has 
always been loosely read. I think the current subject is not unlike the 
Hyattsville exercise lady, not a Riverdale Park resident hyping a for 
profit .... But as in that case when the moderator thinks its OK, its 
OK. Whether we agree or not.

> Now real spam - let me tell you about that.

And this differs for "unsolicited commercial email" how? (Im sorry)

>
> As for the for-profit question, I too was groomed in the days when
> Usenet was king and the Prime Directive was 'thou shalt not pursue for
> profit endeavors on the [publicly funded and administered] Internet.'
> oh, those were the days, before Google, Yahoo, Bing, Wetpaint Wikis,
> etc.
>
Yes, yes we gray beards remember. Of course then the connection was a 30 
baud dial-up acoustic modem and the real cost was more obvious. Yes 
"kids" there was a time when even a 2-finger typist was faster than the 
connection.

But enough bandwidth on a lost cause. Besides I too must go deal with 
some more of the 300-400 daily spam my domain receives. No I don't just 
delete it. I forward it to one or more of 5 different organizations that 
build block list or work to close down the spammer, supporting ISP or 
the advertised link in the spam. = the illness not the symptom.

Lou