[ILUG] ILUG AGM Announcement

[Colm Buckley]

On 15 Oct 2004, at 16:09, Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions wrote:

> Why should I have to put up with oodles of spam from the ILUG list due 
> to its open policy?

You don't get "oodles".  Less than 10 spam messages per month get 
through the spam filters on dagda (a further 100-200 messages per day 
are trapped before broadcast), which is not onerous by *anyone's* 
count.  It's certainly a price I'm willing to pay to keep the barrier 
to entry to the list as low as possible.

Remember that first-time posters to the list are likely to be people 
new to Linux, or people considering Linux as an alternative to their 
current setup.  I don't want any unnecessary crap getting between these 
people and the help and encouragement we want to give them.

> But I don't get ANY spam on any other mailing list I am subscribed to. 
> Not one. Ever.

So what?  You get a minuscule amount through ILUG, which probably takes 
less than a minute per month to evaluate and discard.  This is not a 
big deal, and I really don't think there's any point in arguing that 
it's vital for your sanity.

	Colm

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