[afnog] Position available

[Phil Regnauld]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 11:30:38AM +0200, Alan Levin wrote:
> <snip>
> What is spam?
> Spam is flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message,  
> in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise  
> choose to receive it. Most spam is commercial advertising, often for  
> dubious products, get-rich-quick schemes, or quasi-legal services.  
> Spam costs the sender very little to send -- most of the costs are  
> paid for by the recipient or the carriers rather than by the sender.
> </snip>

	SPAM is UBE -- Unsollicited, Bulk, Email -- that mostly fits your
	statement.

> I cannot see that Gary's post is any of the above?

	Randy's comment was ambiguous in my opinion -- does he know
	the sender of the mail to be a spammer ?  If that's the case then
	he knows something we don't.  If he considers the mail itself
	to be a spam: that depends on the goal of the Afnog list.

	I _seems_ to me that sending job offers that are within the
	range of responsibilities of a typical african network operator is
	acceptable.  I didn't see any guidelines for or against.  But I can
	definitely see that if many people start doing this on this list,
	it will quickly become chaos.  In that case, a dedicated list
	should be created.  That would be my suggestion.

	My 0.02 DKK (Danish crowns for the curious).