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Subject: Re: [xtm-wg] e-groups excrement in our messages
Daniel Rivers-Moore wrote: > > eGroups does not force you to submit to advertising. You can avoid it by > paying for the service. This seems quite normal to me. Someone has to pay > for the service. If you don't, advertisers do. I use all sorts of online services that are provided gratis. Sometimes they are donated services, such as is used by IETF working groups, Linux discussion boards, etc. I see absolutely no reason to pay for e-groups, nor to submit to advertising in this activity. I'm sure that if Steve weren't able to donate server space, I could easily rouse up some here at Sun, and we'd also provide it for free, with no advertising. I'm sure others in the XTM would do the same. In the process we *might* have to give up chat, etc. but I don't think we even need chat all that much, especially since we're so spread out across the globe that it would be a major inconvenience for many to be chatting at 7:00am or 11:30pm instead of sleeping or spending time with friends and family. And really, it's not hard to set up an IRC site, not really much harder than majordomo. Murray ........................................................................... Murray Altheim, SGML/XML Grease Monkey <mailto:altheim@eng.sun.com> XML Technology Center Sun Microsystems, 1601 Willow Rd., MS UMPK17-102, Menlo Park, CA 94025 In the evening The rice leaves in the garden Rustle in the autumn wind That blows through my reed hut. -- Minamoto no Tsunenobu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create professional forms and interactive web pages in less time with Mozquito(tm) technology. Form the Web today - visit: http://click.egroups.com/1/6342/4/_/337252/_/964042436/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Post a message, send it to: xtm-wg@eGroups.com To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: xtm-wg-unsubscribe@eGroups.com
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