Tom Marble wrote:
> As the offical and democratically elected leader of TCLUG
> I would like to appeal to you to fill out the form for us to join
> the O'Reilly User Group & Professional Association Program.
>   http://ug.oreilly.com/
> ...[SNIP]...
> Why?
>  **** 20% UG member discount on all O'Reilly products and conferences
>     * weekly newsletter
>     * quarterly catalogs
>     * O'Reilly speakers

Oh, by all gods large and small, here it is...  To sign up, you must
subscribe their newsletter to the list, at least that's how the TCWUG
group has it set up.  Additionally, they have not used the mailman
"topics" feature to label it as "advertisement".

Please do not cave in to this request, or if you do, place the crappy
advertisement newsletter on another list.  IMHO, newsletters should be
sent out to INDIVIDUALS, not lists, on a subscription basis only.

>     * review copies of O'Reilly products
>     * donations of books and other promo items

Yay.  How gracious a trade off for voluntary SPAM.

-- 
Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net>           http://www.wookimus.net/
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