Is this real or spam

[Gregory Pittman]

Elliot Lee wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
>
>   
>> Is the message below real or spam.
>>     
>
> Yes, it's real. I want I can't e-mail the whole list at once, because then
> it winds up unread in people's "pile of mailing lists that never get
> read", and it's also harder to track who has responded from the sample.
>
> If you don't care one way or another, you're free to disgregard it. I just
> hate criticism that Fedora is not open or transparent enough, so when I
> saw a chance to ask people's opinions, I jumped on it. Sorry if anyone was
> offended.
>   
In much the same way I'd rather not have Elliot call me at home or show 
up on my front door, I rather not have messages like this sent to me 
separate from the list. I didn't sign up to the list to suggest that 
anyone on the list, whether they are part of the Fedora organization or 
not, use my personal address in this manner. If some private company fed 
the list addresses into their computer and sent solicitations for 
donations, I would be unhappy and wish I hadn't joined the list -- this 
was not part of the agreement.
I think the proper place for something like this is on one of the 
several official Fedora pages, which presumably most of us read. The 
problem with this kind of message is that it is impossible to 
distinguish from spam or a scam, so it ends up being more internet 
noise. Even if on the up-and-up, it makes no particular point, comes to 
no particular conclusion, and therefore is a waste of time to read.

Greg