* Glenn McGrath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030826 15:05]: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:58:10 +0200 > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > SPAM doesn't get better if done for a "good thing". > > > > (That doesn't stop me of writing letters to Members of European > > Parliament e.g., but your mail is absolutly misdirected at d-d.) > Software patents do restrict what debian can distribute, this list is I know, I'm just massivly fighting with them in one package. It's definitly no fun. > for people interested in developing and distributing software. > > The mail is relavent to the members of the list, and non-commercial in > nature, i dont see how you can consider it to be spam. Sorry, but there a multiple messages about the very same thing on different lists sent by activists. I for myself consider this as inproper use. There was e.g. a message on August 22 here. If messages about one topic are unreleated to each other, that certainly not the way the references-functions are made to work, and it's showing that the persons are not discussing but just announcing their action here. And: -devel is just the wrong list, -project would be far more adaequate. That something is "non-commercial" or "for a good purpose" isn't it make much better. There are right tools and ways for something. Misusing other tools is bad. Always. (Trying to stop misinterpreting: I think that sw-patents are a bad thing, and that the campaign again is a very good thing. But even for very good things there are borders not to be crossed.) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C
