[RP TownTalk] Patch wants to know

[LizBolin at comcast.net]

I, for one, am happy to see Patch set up a site for Riverdale Park.  I, for one, am happy to see Patch set up a site for Riverdale Park.  



And, use our Town Talk to get the word out, and ask for input. 



Public resources are meant to serve the people.  People use them for commercial uses all the time.  Why, even here, Yoga Space in Hyattsville has advertised for their classes.  



Just my humble $0.02.  (Aren't we lucky to live in a country where we can safely and legally have this discussion?) 



I think these situations are part of the result/price we pay for having a free society, and free media; and we should all deal with them as we feel right.  






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lou King" <lking at knob.com> 
To: "Dwight Holmes" <dwightrholmes at gmail.com> 
Cc: towntalk at riverdale-park.org 
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 1:37:17 AM 
Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] Patch wants to know 

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 

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