Pete Ehlke wrote:
It seems, however, that the list is attracting more and more attention form sales & marketing types. For whatever good (netapp) or evil (YKWYA) purposes, the folks who make the money seem to want to listen in. And thus these messages.
fubar? what do you think? administrivia at least?
The commercial traffic on this list is minimal and usually relevant. It has been helpful to me, and probably to others too. For example, I had no idea before reading it here that there was anyone around specializing in buying and selling used NetApp gear. This could potentially save my company a lot of money.
Not worth making a fuss over, IMHO.
Andy
Pete Ehlke wrote:
It seems, however, that the list is attracting more and more attention form sales & marketing types. For whatever good (netapp) or evil (YKWYA) purposes, the folks who make the money seem to want to listen in. And thus these messages.
fubar? what do you think? administrivia at least?
The commercial traffic on this list is minimal and usually relevant.
I'm not sure he was referring to commercial traffic.
I suspect he was, instead, referring to "please add me to the list" or "please remove me from the list" messages from sales and marketing types unaware that the way you subscribe to a list is *NOT* to send mail to the list itself with "subscribe" in the message.
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