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Date:         Sun, 17 Jan 1999 20:50:08 -0500
Reply-To:     David-M <dmc@CYBURBAN.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David-M <dmc@CYBURBAN.COM>
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Subject:      Re: Bus Depot SPAM - not the worst problem
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Tim Smith wrote: > > Jezuuz H... > (or pick a diety of your choice) > > Kent Christenson sent a nicely phrased message a couple of weeks back how > this list was "over the top" as far as advertising goes, and this latest > spamming from Salmon (below) is typical of the worst of it! This is a > blatant plug for his business, sugar coat it however you want to. It was > NOT a kind little PSA to illuminate us into the intricacies of vanagon > filters, it was a plug, plain and simple. > > I too subscribe(d) to other lists, Audi, Porsche, and Off-Road, and the > vanagon list is the worst. Please don't reply with some anti-elitist crap > that 'perhaps you should stay on the LandRover?BMW/etc list, since you can > aford dealer parts" There IS a problem with spam on this list, more than > any other list I've been on. Something needs to be done, either go > commercial, charge the vendors for access priveliges and monthly > advertising rights, or simply put a block on vendors posting to the list. > 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 > > As a fellow listmember, I have no problem with such posts so long as they are kept to a minimum number per week. What is far more annoying (to me) are non-Vanagon related posts such as those discussing Audis, and all the supposedly amusing posts that should be kept to Friday but now seem to be appearing all week.


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