On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:43:27AM -0800, Scott Weeks wrote:

If they see all of us saying we won't buy from them when they do idiotic things like spamming nanog folks (I can't think of too many groups it world be worse to spam... ;-) they will realize that doing this will not only not generate sales, it will actually prevent future sales from occurring.

you are assuming they actually read the list. -- Jim Mercer jim@reptiles.org +92 336 520-4504 "I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak." - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com> wrote:

If they see all of us saying we won't buy from them when they do idiotic things like spamming nanog folks (I can't think of too many groups it world be worse to spam... ;-) they will realize that doing this will not only not generate sales, it will actually prevent future sales from occurring.

First thing I ask anyone who phones me is where they got my contact information. If their answer starts with "uhhh", the phone gets hung up ;)