Re: [Thinkpad] Nabble

Elijah,

Even if rabble does manage to change their software to include posters'
real names, I suggest you continue to forbid at least posting from
nonsubscribers. Subscribing to a list reflects a commitment to be an
active participant; I predict that people who come from tribble will
just post their question, get their answer, and then go back to playing
minesweeper. (This happened when cNet changed their 'help' pages into a
passive window to Usenet - others on our list will recall how irritating
this was on the laptops newsgroup way back when.)

David R.

----- Original Message -----
From: "elijah wright" <elw@stderr.org>
To: "Rod Morris" <rod@nabble.com>
Cc: <thinkpad@stderr.org>; <thinkpad-owner@stderr.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Nabble

>
>
> i talked to someone from your site via mail the other day. he told me
> that the "next version" of your site's software will prevent people
from
> posting to lists that they're not subscribed to.
>
> i'm disinclined to take any special effort to make things work with
your
> site until your software does what it should do anyway. if you want
me to
> pay special attention to you, i'm happy to take payment up front for
my
> time.
>
> other listservs on the internet are not in the business of feeding
your
> company valuable data. please don't impose on other people's goodwill
by
> being careless about what your software does. [to put it rather
bluntly,
> i don't consider 'lists@nabble.com' a legitimate subscriber to a
listserv.
> you (in the guise of lists@nabble.com) are code, not a person, and
> currently you're rather badly behaved.]
>
> i'm probably being a little bit snarky, but the person i was
corresponding
> with the other day was a bit assertive, almost to the point of being
rude,
> about thanking me for re-enabling nabble.com's subscription to the
> listserv (which i have not yet done, and do not plan to do until
issues
> are resolved). please go LART your customer service folks - or
whoever
> they are.
>
>
> --elijah
>
>
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Rod Morris wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:11:49 -0800
> > From: Rod Morris <rod@nabble.com>
> > To: thinkpad-owner@stderr.org, thinkpad@stderr.org, elw@stderr.org
> > Subject: Nabble
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I noticed that you dropped Nabble from your list so that it isn't
> > being archived any longer.
> >
> >
http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Fwd%3A-You-have-been-unsubscribed-from-the-Thinkpad-mailing-list-t897067.html#a2325099
> >
> > I assume that this was in response to a post that we made locally.
On
> > many lists, this is the default when the archives were created.
> > However, there is another option to turn off local posting which has
> > been done.
> >
> > Hopefully, you'll reconsider and we can resubscribe as having the
> > archive available and easy to search for old posts is beneficial to
> > your list members.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Rod Morris
> > Nabble.com
> >
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