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<P><BR></SPAN>I, for one, am happy to see Patch set up a site for Riverdale Park. </P>
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<P>And, use our Town Talk to get the word out, and ask for input.</P>
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<P>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. </P>
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<P>Just my humble $0.02. (Aren't we lucky to live in a country where we can safely and legally have this discussion?)</P>
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<P>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. </P>
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<P><BR>----- Original Message -----<BR>From: "Lou King" <lking@knob.com><BR>To: "Dwight Holmes" <dwightrholmes@gmail.com><BR>Cc: towntalk@riverdale-park.org<BR>Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 1:37:17 AM<BR>Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] Patch wants to know<BR><BR>Lou<BR>O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop HTML mail - www.asciiribbon.org<BR><BR>Dwight Holmes wrote, On 7/26/2010 9:14 PM:<BR><BR>> I use the ignore<BR>> and the delete options freely, and always invite others to do the<BR>> same. It is - for me- so much easier than consternating, getting<BR>> worked up over something that can be ignored or deleted with extreme<BR>> ease.<BR><BR>Whether I/someone finds it annoying or just not interested, I don't <BR>think is the point. Whether it is a misuse of (town) government assets <BR>for commercial purposes is my point. If I remember correctly your <BR>Gazette example(s) did not include multiple clickable links to the <BR>Gazette, but you make a valid point.<BR><BR>I'm sorry to hear your ignore/delete solution. I think that treats the <BR>symptom not the illness. It supports the first spammer's rule<BR><BR>Rule #0: Spam is theft.<BR> * Angel's Commentary: Spammers believe it's okay to steal a little <BR>bit from each person on the Internet at once.<BR><BR>In this case some part of a penny of our tax dollars are being use to <BR>support a clearly commercial interest (outside of town). Although "The <BR>TownTalk mailing list is open to all Riverdale Park residents." This has <BR>always been loosely read. I think the current subject is not unlike the <BR>Hyattsville exercise lady, not a Riverdale Park resident hyping a for <BR>profit .... But as in that case when the moderator thinks its OK, its <BR>OK. Whether we agree or not.<BR><BR>> Now real spam - let me tell you about that.<BR><BR>And this differs for "unsolicited commercial email" how? (Im sorry)<BR><BR>><BR>> As for the for-profit question, I too was groomed in the days when<BR>> Usenet was king and the Prime Directive was 'thou shalt not pursue for<BR>> profit endeavors on the [publicly funded and administered] Internet.'<BR>> oh, those were the days, before Google, Yahoo, Bing, Wetpaint Wikis,<BR>> etc.<BR>><BR>Yes, yes we gray beards remember. Of course then the connection was a 30 <BR>baud dial-up acoustic modem and the real cost was more obvious. Yes <BR>"kids" there was a time when even a 2-finger typist was faster than the <BR>connection.<BR><BR>But enough bandwidth on a lost cause. Besides I too must go deal with <BR>some more of the 300-400 daily spam my domain receives. No I don't just <BR>delete it. I forward it to one or more of 5 different organizations that <BR>build block list or work to close down the spammer, supporting ISP or <BR>the advertised link in the spam. = the illness not the symptom.<BR><BR>Lou<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>TownTalk mailing list<BR>To post to the list, send mail to TownTalk@riverdale-park.org<BR>TownTalk-request@riverdale-park.org is for automated subscription processing only<BR>http://riverdale-park.org/mailman/listinfo/towntalk<BR><BR>For more information about Riverdale Park, visit http://www.riverdaleparkmd.info<BR></P></div></body></html>