RE: BCC Drop iSeries Disk Prices Following IBM Cuts

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> Not sure, but I think every Midrange-L subscriber gets BCC spam
> delivered automatically.  No need to duplicate it.

Folks:

I'd rather that folks did *NOT* forward advertisements from vendors to the
mailing lists.  While some may consider this to be news, most people
consider it just free advertising.
BCC's messages are spam, pure and simple.  I suspect that few people who
received their messages (myself included, at multiple email addresses)
asked to receive their messages.  When you don't ask for commercial email,
it's spam.
There's no need to propagate their spam.

As always, if a vendor has a solution that will solve a subscribers
specific problem, they are allowed (and encouraged) to post a response to
that effect.  These lists are about solving problems and making our lives
easier so we can work on the really tough problems (like using up the
worlds supply of fishing poles).
Vendors are *NOT* allowed to post general "HEY LOOK AT US AND OUR GREAT
PRODUCT" messages.
On the subject of spam in general: It really annoys me when I get spam ...
It annoys me even more when the spam comes from an iSeries vendor.  It
absolutely toasts my chaps when iSeries vendors send spam to the mailing
lists I host.  Any vendor that attempts to spam the lists will earn a
special place in my version of hell (think multiple matching records RPG
II programs, with 60 files and no variable more than 3 characters).  And,
to be honest, anyone indirectly associated with those vendors loose points
with me.  Some may think that unsolicited commercial email is a valid
marketing technique, and it may garner sales in the short term, but it
will always steer me away from that vendor.
If you wish to follow up on this topic, send private email.

david