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hi all At 09:26 1999/06/11 -0500, art wrote, in part: >Shortly after John Bjork's posting about AgeNet on 6 June, there was >a hue and cry about that posting - for what I believe was the wrong >reason. In fact I commend John for posting it - and for the disclaimer >that he used - but he did it the wrong way... as i recall, initially, there was confusion about where the post had come from and whether the entire list had been 'spammed' by agenet: since we are a 'private' list [i.e. our names are not available to potential spammers] this was a 'legitimate' cause for concern >There is nothing wrong with posting false information to the list. >(of course, there's nothing right about it either) - as all of us >know that the list contains much deceiving, outdated, false >information, and we sort it out with each others' help. I'm not >accusing AgeNet of being any of these, but if it were, it would >just be so much chaff to separate from the wheat... i'm not sure i understand your point here if there's nothing 'wrong' or 'right' with posting false information to the list what are we left with? maybe the intention behind the posting? posting false information deliberately could be deemed 'wrong' although i doubt any cyber-family-member would post such posting false information in error could be deemed 'wrong' but i prefer to use the softer, gentler term 'goof-up' much less judgmental, imho >There is nothing wrong with discussing a product or service >that somebody somewhere may make money on or referring to >such a person or company's website... nope, nothing at all, as long as the financial interest is declared as such if the financial interest is deliberately concealed behind another stated purpose or mission then what we have is fraud plain and simple >Most of the websites on the World Wide Web >were placed there for commercial purposes... i dunno about this; i have my doubts, but i don't know where such statistics would be maintained >But we zealously guard this list against >becoming anybody's commercial tool... soitenly! our list mom wouldn't like it that wasn't the reason she created this list in the first place >Maybe I missed it, but I'm surprised that nobody else caught >this point: What is wrong is the fact that HTML material was >sent to the list... i didn't miss it i just didn't comment on it i figured it was an 'honest' mistake i figure we are all entitled and even bound to make them how about writing up a newbie's guide to e-mail and i'll post it in the "internet for newbies" section of the PIEnet site? huh? jaNET of pieNET janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada a new voice http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/ [log in to unmask]