Spam and the [ILUG] Constitution

[Breathnach, Proinnsias(Dublin)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	John P. Looney [SMTP:jplooney at online.ie]
> 
>  Would it not be best to say "Either stick 'COMMERICAL' in the subject
> line of any message, or we'll threaten you with requiring a fee" ? Then
> people can just filter out Spam, or they can keep their mind open about
> it. I assume 90% of UCE on the mail list would be linux-related (I'm
> talking stuff I might send, like "I've a machine to sell", or "Linux job
> going here"). It's still commerical, and unsolicited, so shouldn't be
> regarded as normal mail, but it sounds like debian-user just don't want
> UCE, full stop - not quite what we should be going on here.
> Kate
> 
The main thought on debian-user is to discourage UCE, although looking again
at their policy (http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe - bottom) they
offer discounts / waiver of fees to debain related / on topic CE ... so the
likes of one of us with a hardware / jobs to sell could be described as
on-topic, where as that socks mail from a while back would have got a nice
invoice ... the RedHat certification mails could have been billed at a lower
/ discounted rate (or because they were on-topic, and were offering
substantial discounts, had the fee waived). 

We don't get a lot of spam yet, and the [Commercial] is a very good idea
anyway, but with the current growth of the ILUG it's only a matter of time
...

Proinnsais