[ale] New July GIS Essentials Class - 2010 Census Data Added-SPAM

[Jeff Hubbs]

I do take a slight exception to this being called "GIS Essentials" when 
it's really an ESRI customer casting of the net.  I don't buy into 
ESRI/GIS equivalence any more than I buy into Cisco/networking equivalence.

On 6/20/11 5:11 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Yes. As long as it's more in the tone of a notice and not a barrage of 
> "GIVE US YOUR MONEY" announcements.
>
> And a single notice for an occasional event. And it needs to be at 
> least somehow related to Linux (runs on linux works but competes with 
> Linux does not - i.e. Microsoft training announcements). If RedHat 
> wants to announce a training session for RHCE certificate or LPI wants 
> to announce a testing session, sure, it's related.
>
> But then I don't CENSOR the list except to turn off someones 
> microphone when they are being abusive. I have no interest (or time) 
> to moderate everything that goes on here. I only send nasty-grams when 
> people cross the invisible, unmarked line that nobody can see but me 
> (and my imaginary friends).
>
> Personally, I wish the training were far less than a kilobuck cause 
> I'm interested in GIS stuff but more from the "how do I do that ArcGIS 
> thing in GISS-GRASS". So knowing the commercial process helps my FLOSS 
> understanding.
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com 
> <mailto:JLightner at water.com>> wrote:
>
>     So you’re going to allow RedHat training entities and other FOSS
>     organizations to send messages like this?
>
>     This isn’t a special interest notice - it offers a service for a
>     fee and is therefore spam.  If they want to offer free classes
>     then I’d say it should be allowed but that isn’t what she did here.
>
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>     *From:*ale-bounces at ale.org <mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>
>     [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org <mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>] *On
>     Behalf Of *Jim Kinney
>     *Sent:* Monday, June 20, 2011 4:41 PM
>     *To:* Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>     *Subject:* Re: [ale] New July GIS Essentials Class - 2010 Census
>     Data Added-SPAM
>
>     Gina was approved over a year ago to send special interest notices
>     to ALE as they now have Linux-based ArcMAP tools available.
>
>     We went round this corner already and decided to allow notices
>     like this as she is a subscriber and has sat through the vicious
>     invective spewed from ALE on other off-topic posts.
>
>     On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Lightner, Jeff
>     <JLightner at water.com <mailto:JLightner at water.com>> wrote:
>
>     Can the moderator please flog the sender for this SPAM?
>
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