[Vorbis] FOSS, Science, and Public activism

[Pandu E Poluan]

No, sir. I believe you can read, and the name of this mailing list is 
"Vorbis", and thus all members of this mailing list (perhaps, excluding you, 
who are probably braindead enough to not be able to deduce the mailing 
list's mission) are interested in this wonderful cure for cancer, AIDS, and 
global poverty called "Vorbis".

Should you have an alternative way for curing cancer, AIDS, or global 
poverty that does not go with the name "Vorbis", then sadly, we are not 
interested.

{p}


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <proclus at gnu-darwin.org>
To: "Segher Boessenkool" <segher at kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: <vorbis at lists.xiph.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 6:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Vorbis] FOSS, Science, and Public activism
On  3 Jul, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>> Please don't throw around the label of spam so lightly
>
> "spam" == "unsollicited bulk email".  This certainly applies -- I alone
> got 8 copies of this message!  (And, after reading the first couple of
> lines, I pressed the 'd' key).

That definition certainly requires some modification, because you have
subscribed to public forums, and I felt that it was relevant and
important to post the message to each one of them in order to bring
together all the interested people.

People who subscribe to public forums often receive unsolicited
messages.  You deleted messages which you were not interested in, which
is also obviously not a problem, and a commonplace occurrence.  The
interest of other members of the list should be taken into account, so
that messages of this type should sometimes be encouraged, and not
quelled with the spam label.  Your 'd' key is handy.

Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/




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