(Commercial) Tux Sticker

[Mel Seder]

I agree with Louie :-)

--- hui xu <louiehui_xu-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> All,
>  
> I think that it is not a good way to forbid sending commercial email to LUG.
> Because some of these commercial email may be useful for us.
>  
> My suggestion is that we may need to create a new email list which is used
> for exchanging commercial information among members. such as exchange used
> computers or compents. If everybody agree, I would like to do it .
>  
> Best regards!
> Louie
> 
> 
> tlug.miguel-3KzNJp4Rz8A at public.gmane.org wrote:
> I think I must tell a little bit of my story.
> 
> I first send a post to the LUG of Québec (http://www.linux-quebec.org/),
> since I live there, where it is written
> (http://www.linux-quebec.org/mailman/listinfo/annonces) that a commercial
> announce can be send if the word "COMMERCIAL" is written in the subject.
> 
> Following that post, someone put a story on several websites about 
> "Linuxien-ienne, show your colors". That brings me a lot of traffic on my 
> website.
> 
> Based on this experience, I started to post on differents LUG across the 
> world, being afraid of what it is happening right now on this lug: being 
> taxed of doing spam.
> 
> After a while, no one protested about my posts, so I continued to post on 
> other LUG.
> 
> However, it is true that it is written onto your policy that " We condemn 
> any unsolicited form of advertising. " That is my mistake. I should have 
> read this before any post. From now on, I will read it before any post in 
> a lug.
> 
> Please accept my apologies,
> 
> Miguel Tremblay
> 
> P.S. It is also right that I wrote "such a thing does'nt exists". This is 
> not true, I should have said that I found no one on the Internet.
> 
> On Thu, 27 May 2004, Robert Brockway wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 27 May 2004, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> > 
> > > While it is quite enterprising of you to spam a bunch of LUG mailing
> lists in
> > > Canada (perhaps even wider afield?) you can count on me not buying a
> single
> > 
> > HUMBUG (Brisbane, Australia) received the same email.
> > 
> > The problem I have with the whole thing is the gentleman starts out by
> > saying that no Tux/Linux stickers exist. This is not true. Linux
> > stickers have been around for years as evidenced by the I Linux
> > sticker my car in Australia still has. I recently got a sticker from
> > Linux Journal as well.
> > 
> > Rob
> > 
> > 
> 
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