[geeks] Thoughts on mailing list advertising

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Tue Oct 12 10:06:07 CDT 2004


Mon, 11 Oct 2004 @ 17:59 -0500, Dan Sikorski said:

> Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> >What are you guys' thoughts on small advertisements (2-3 lines) in the 
> >message footer at the end of each mail going through the lists I host 
> >(sunhelp/rescue/geeks)?
> >
> >I'm being relocated to Houston for work, and need to find some way to raise
> >enough money for a decent 1U x86 server so that I can move all of the 
> >SunHELP stuff to a provider in Houston eventually.
> > 
> >
> Personally, i'd rather not have the ad's if we can find a way to get you 
> the new machine without resorting to it.  I'd rather chuck in some cash 
> for a new server fund.  Maybe we can all donate what we can, and get 
> enough to cover it?

I don't like email ads either.  If we can find a way to avoid them, that
would be nice.

However, if Bill needs to use them that's OK.



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