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Below is an exchange of e-mail from myself and Dave Story regarding my posting on the IANTD news release. The edited version of which appears below. I have recieved 34 responses and 33 have requested the posting if not on techdiver, at least via a private mail list. I felt that Dave's response warranted a response since I could easily see if not agree with his arguement. So I asked him if I could post his responses and he agreed. I think he has hit on an excellent solution when he suggests that all posting from a commercial source be designated as such in the subject area allowing anyone who does not wish to view it the opportunity to either filter it or at least delete it. Unless I get some major oblections, either from JR or others on this matter over the next two days, I will post the edited IANTD news release using the subject heading "com. IANTD press release" I hope that this will satisfy everyones concerns, yet still allow free distribution of information regardless of the source. I will be forwarding this to jr, who is off the list right now for comments and welcome any others. Best Regards RW *********************************************************************** Rick Williams writes: > > My question to the techdiver readership is this. Are you interested in > seeing selected postings that might impact your diving or answer > questions, or should I not since these originate from commercial > concerns. As an example I just recieved a press release from IANTD on > some new manuals for overhead diving. It occurs that this might be of > interest to a lot of people, but at the same time, with the reaction to > the ITD announcement, I don't want to step on any toes. No, I'm not at all interested. I have other forums to find out about this. Do NOT send me direct e-mail with any advertisements. If you were distributing on a voluntary reader setup like netnews, no problem, but your messages to techdiver go directly to my inbox, and I'd rather not have to filter any more than I have to. Dave Rick Williams writes: > > This is exactly the problem. I've had about twenty responses all wanting > the information, yet you are basicly demanding not to recieve it via > techdiver. Since many sites do not have usenet and e-mail is the only > universal service, what is to be done. Do I work this as a vote, 20-1, > you'd lose, but the issue I think is a free flow of information. If I > post an E-mail on the bases, "Hey I heard IANTD has a couple of new books > out, that isn't commercial. If IANTD says it, it suddenly is. It's > still information, and a lot of stuff that gets carried has a commercial > impact. > With your permission, I'd like to post this to techdiver along with your > orginal response. Either way, lets just agree that we disagree yet > acknowledge the other persons view. Sure, no problem. There are two technical solutions, in descending order of preference: 1) Make a seperate "techdiver-announce" list, so those folks interested can read and post whatever they like. 2) Enforce a standard SUBJECT line which specifies that this is an commercial announcement. That way one can skip the announcement and read only the responses, or kill an entire thread regarding an announcement. Mail is simply not set up for N-way conversations. The right answer is to use a netnews "bulletin board" with all its capabilities to handle the volumes we're starting to get into. This list is simply getting too popular to be a mailing list. The volume is too high, and we'll drive away with sheer volume those folks who could contribute. Cheers, David Story NAUI AI Z9588, PADI DM 43922, EMT story@be*.wp*.sg*.co* Opinions my own, and subject to dispute.
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