Re: [Alsa-user] Advertising on the alsa mailing list

[Bill U. <un...@ph...>]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> At Thu, 6 Jul 2006 17:00:58 +0200,
> Nigel Henry wrote:
>>
>> On Thursday 06 July 2006 16:32, Bill Unruh wrote:
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>>>
>>> When and why did the alsa mailing list suddenly start putting in
>>> advertising at the end of each email? I really do not like this, especially
>>> since the way it is done does not differentiate it from the rest of the
>>> email at all. This is my vote that this advertising be removed from the
>>> alsa mailing list.
>>
>> Hi Bill. I wonder whether this is something to do with lists hosted at
>> sourceforge, as posts to the Rosegarden list have the same adds
>
> I guess it comes from sourceforge automatically.  AFAIK, we didn't
> add/change any ML setting.
>

Can we ask them to quit? I do not use Tomcat, nor have I any interest in
doing so, and to read the same blurb 10 times a day, even peripherally, is
annoying. Because it just runs on from the text of the message itself, I
too often find myself starting to read it, and then getting very annoyed
that I have done so.