On-list advertisements/long sigs

[auditude at cox.net]

Yeah, I figured you might not like each one of them to be forwarded to you, so I haven't done that.  

I guess I don't have any particular desire to join the group of monitors (since the ads don't actually bother me personally, just the idea of the ads, if that makes any sense! WTH? I don't even know how I feel about it! :P ).

I guess I just want to flame the people for not following the rules, but on the other hand I'm learning that flaming is just a waste.  What's that called, cynicism?  If the flame didn't have to be from me, like a stealth-flame or auto-flamer, now that would be cool! :P

Eh, I don't have anything more to type.

Cheers,

Ken

"Mark L. Chang" <mchang at ee.washington.edu>
> 
> auditude at cox.net wrote:
> 
> > Whenever I get a notice of a new ad that has a reference to an Ebay
> > auction, I wish there was something I could click that would somehow
> > help enforce the no Ebay link thing.  (Even tho' if I'm interested in
> > the item I'll check it out on Ebay.)  I just think it's discourteous
> > to put an ad up like this if it is expressly forbidden.
> > 
> > Can't a filter be put on the ad submission form to reject any ads
> > that have the word Ebay in them, or something like that?
> > 
> > They get posted quite a bit.
> 
> I don't like filtering ads. Also, I don't like emailing every offending 
> ad. On the flip side, the frequency of offending ads has dropped off 
> pretty good since I put in more steps to submitting an ad.
> 
> But, I have my watchers, and they let me know when an ebay ad goes to 
> press and they forward it to me. Now, I don't want everyone doing this, 
> but if you want to join the 'pack', just shoot me an email.
> 
> For everyone else, well, if you see an ebay ad, just email the poster 
> directly (reply to the ad) letting them know, gently, that ebay/referral 
> ads are not allowed. When they get 50 responses to their ad, I'm sure 
> they'll get the message.
> 
> Mark