At 2:12 PM 1/18/99, Tim Smith wrote: >I hate to advocate a moderated list, especially due to the workload this >imposes on any listmeister, but uninformative posts designed only to sell >product or bring attention to a vanagon related business have no place on >the list and need to be moderated. Perhaps if vendors policed themselves I >wouldn't have to bring this non-vanagon issue up again. > >pissed off again by sales weasels, XOXOX, Tim Smith > You can moderate your own list... NOTHING prevents you from filtering messages from the Bud Depot (and any other vendor on this list) or just deleting them without reading them, just as nothing prevents you from providing a clarification to Ron's postings on parts prices details, and/or alternative/better sources...or go pound sand as Bob Alexander puts it. I don't consider the vendors' postings to be anywhere close to SPAM, and I've been on and off this list and its predecessors over a period longer than a decade. It's surprising how poorly some of the "vendors", in the past, as well as present, actually provide/present useful information about the products they sell.
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