Re: Spam-fest avoidance

In a message dated 07/10/2000 12:03:01 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
chague@pfda.com writes:

<< I think "going too far" will be easy to spot and identify.  One obvious
 abuse is a vendor replying to a lot of messages saying "I have something..."
 I think tasteful, brief, and appropriate messages such as your original post
 are USEFUL and not-at-all annoying. >>
  

    OK so where does one draw that line ? So this guy's "ok" but what about 
the (insert  number of unwarrented spammers here )  who will salt the 
conversations for a chance to plug their wares or just blatently do a plug. 
My understanding of this email group was to  foster an online community to 
allow open discussions for JBA users. Not to create a police state where the 
moderator is forced to decide who's solicitation is or isn't appropriate. As 
the moderator for another group not related to JBA I find that sort of 
decision not an easy one to define. What is very appropriate is a reply 
saying please contact me directly and lets discuss this outside the group, 
this way the vendors do get the chance to offer solutions and the group gets 
to see this offering, yet it does not disrupt the flow of the group as a 
whole. 

    I appreciate the way this group is structured and moderated as to the 
benefit of the users relationships within the forum of JBA cross referencing 
and helping one another, instead of being isolated with no outside 
interaction as to the levels of importance on JBA issues. 

 WWW.Midrange.com  does provide a midrange resource area  where vendors can 
be listed  and found quite easily. 

Thanks in advance for your time 
Laura Campbell
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