on 2/9/02 2:41 PM, Victor Rehorst at victor_at_newtontalk.net wrote:
>
>
> Okay, that's it. I've had enough of blatant, stupid off-topic threads
> being started in this list for no reason at all.
>
> This is a Newton discussion group. That means that posts should be
> related to the Apple Newton MessagePad in some way, shape or form.
>
> Posting a URL to some site that it completely not Newton-related is not
> acceptable. Not when your message is being personally delivered to almost
> 1300 people's personal e-mail accounts. Over 1300 people. That is a lot
> of people! They are only expecting Newton discussion. They do not expect
> political discussion, no matter how interesting, thought provoking, or
> blatantly stupid it is. Anyone who is signed up to this list expecting to
> see this kind of discussion, I cordially invite you to leave and find a
> form better suited for your topics.
>
> I am going to start unsubscribing people who do things like this. If such
> threads somehow develop out of other topics, fine, but posting such crap
> as a single URL that has no relation to anything else happening on the
> list is not acceptable. I can't prevent anyone from re-subscribing
> (unless they are being extremely mean, and that's what the blacklist is
> for) but hopefully doing this will jolt them into considering the
> consequences of their actions before they send a message to almost 1300
> people.
>
> That's all.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Dave
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