[Home] [Groups] - Message: [Prev in Group] [Next in Group]
6751: [MUD-Dev] Re: ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev
[Full Header] [Plain Text]
From: "T. Alexander Popiel" <popiel@snugharbor.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 14:54:08 -0600
References: [1]
Organization: Kanga.Nu
In message: <E0z5Cwq-0005o9-00@mail.kanga.nu>
J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu> writes:
>
> We now have list members who are using various free email services,
>and in particular email services which append or prepend avertising to
>all messages sent thru them (eg yahoo).
>
> My temptation is to refuse posting authority to all such
>advertising-laden messages as a matter of policy.
>I could install filters on the list to attempt to strip advertising
>from inbound messages but am leery of committing to having to support
>that filter as the format and pattern of the advertising changes over
>time.
>
> Comments? Thoughts? Discussion welcome. Please discuss this only
>under the above subject heading.
[ Note that the above is severely edited. ]
If there are still free mailbox services which do not adulterate mail
like this, I would say to refuse posting authority to all adulterating
services. Unfortunately, I do not know of any free services which do
not adulterate mail... the best I've seen is only two lines of self-
promotion.
My second choice would again be to refuse posting authority; those
who would wish to use such a service for posting probably have the
means to pay for a non-adulterating service; this generally costs
about US$20/month. This doesn't seem like a huge investment to me.
Attempting to filter out the adverts is an unstable solution, as you
point out; it would be my third choice.
- Alex