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Flaming positive initiatives (was: RE: Web Forum)



Eli Marmor has said thus:
> Well, I am tired of this discussion. The only problem of Linux is
> that any positive initiative, faces flames.

[...Several examples of initiatives which faced flames - were snipped...]

I am afraid that in this special case, I must support the flamers rather
than the doers.  I have a large Web site, and I routinely get junk E-mail
from (among other things) people who think that I might be interested in
their shitty Web hosting/promoting services.

In the examples which Eli Marmor cited, people were flamed due to
projects which they did.  In this particular case, the flames are not
because the company started "yet another Web forum which is unnecessary,
unhealthy and harmful due to stupid reasons X,Y and Z".  The flames are
because the company committed the cardinal sin of using inappropriate
means (i.e. spamming) for advertising its services.

So far E-mail spamming by Israelis was not a serious problem.  But this
does not exempt us from keeping vigilance and doing something to prevent
spamming by Israelis from becoming a serious problem, which it can
become due to the cultural tendencies of Israelis.

    (I wrote an E-mail message about the subject in the
    ira-tech@scso.com mailing list, as the subject of spamming
    is not directly related to Linux.)
                                                             --- Omer
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