Is this real or spam

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 1/17/06, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
>
> 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


What if he did that and 75% of people simply do not read it as it doesn't
stand out, or skim through their mailing list box seeing it as a question
they cannot answer?

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