On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Nick Gilliam wrote: > The subject Digest (V97 #100) included a message concerning > pornography. Hopefully this was simply a mistake as it should > have nothing whatsoever to do with Debian/GNU Linux. > > However, if you intend to promote this sort of activity in the > future, please remove me from this list.
Wake up. The debian-changes mailing list was the victim of a spam attack, as so many of us are these days. A system is being implemented to help insulate the mailing lists from noise like this, but it's not quite ready yet. Do you honestly think the Debian developers would endorse such a thing, and do so only by deliberately permitting advertisements to the debian-changes list, of all places? It was also inappropriate for you to vent your indignation on the debian-changes list. Your message was off-topic for the list and only contributes to the noise level. Your personal distate for what you may consider pornography does not exempt you from the rules of polite discourse on the Debian mailing lists. What offends me is not the content of the spam ad (sex) but its nature (spam ad). Perhaps if you are too thin-skinned to react to such a thing rationally, it would be better for you to switch to a more user-friendly operating system, which tries to insulate its users from content they may find topically objectionable (too bad one doesn't exist yet). Unsolicited commercial advertisements are all equally unwelcome, whether they involve pornography, cars, or even Debian Linux CDs. Please focus your displeasure more judiciously in the future, or feel free to remove yourself from the relevant mailing lists. -- G. Branden Robinson | Purdue University | If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws [EMAIL PROTECTED] | will @goH7OjBd7*dnfk=<q4fDj]Kz?. http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
