[colug-432] colug-432 Digest, Vol 66, Issue 11

[R P Herrold]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, Rick Miller wrote:

> AGAIN & AGAIN I've asked for a monthly notification of the colug meetings.
> AGAIN & AGAIN this site has failed. I'm asking everyone on the mailing list
> to tell me what must be done to be informed of the monthly meetings? I
> believe I've been informed maybe 3 times over the last year and I have
> repeatedly petitioned this site for such monthly notification.

How about *this* method: Note the matter on your calendar, and 
if you don't see an email by the last Tuesday or Friday (it 
varies as to when meetings are usually held), check the 
pipermail archive which is open to any reader on an anonymous 
basis?

This venue is a mailing list, and it seems you have set 
yourself for Digest mode.  It also a geek / technical mailing 
list, and the expectation in such is for trimming, and 
interlineated or bottom posting

Your [Rick Miller's] provider (Google) readily supports such.  
You chose not to do trimming here in this post.  Your chosen 
provider (Google) silently (to a customer's POV) hides or 
discards what it considers spam. From observation, by adding a 
sender as 'known' in an address book, or by adding you adding 
a 'filtering rule' to inbound mail screening, such impairments 
may be reduced, but not totally eliminated.  Your choice.  
Your chosen provider impairs delivery in non-conformance with 
to the relevant RFCs.  Your provider chooses NOT to publish 
such criteria, NOR to have responsive real-time venue (a 
support phone number comes to mind) for one technician to 
speak with their counter-party, with logs available to 'iron 
out' kinks.  Their choice.  You alone choose what provider you 
choose to use, and your business relationship with them is not 
in the privity of the list

Linux and FOSS, are in part, about freedoms, and 
responsibility for choices --- no tears but also no sympathy 
from me on your choices of vendors and tools.  I don't work 
for you

So, let's be direct here, as the colug mailing list has 
traditionally been the effort of a 'social voluntary 
organization' rather than a business:

Please make an offer on how much you would like to pay for 
this service per month

The day to day list and notice provider and I will see it, and 
will promptly discuss it at coffee the following day.  You and 
other COLUG members are welcome to join us at Staufs Grandview 
Ave, pretty much every weekday from 8:30 to 9:15.  Weekends 
too with a wider time window

Failing seeing such offer of a sufficiently high amount to 
tempt the day to day list admin, within a week, and absent 
word to the contrary, I will remove you from the list for free 
to avoid further aggravating both you and the list's admins, 
and now its members

-- Russ herrold