Bay Area Alumni Registry and Bulletin Board
Eric Tomacruz
I would like to announce the SF Bay Area automated
alumni e-mail registry and alumni bulletin board located in
http://www.infophil.com/USA/Alumni/SFBA . The WWW page includes
California State University, Hayward
St. Mary's College
San Francisco State University
San Jose State University
Santa Clara University
Stanford University
University of California at Berkeley
University of California at San Francisco
University of San Francisco
Please register and publicize to fellow alumni.
John Navas
toma...@ic.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Tomacruz) wrote:
I sincerely mean no offense, but this does not belong in at least one of the
newsgroups to which you posted it. You may not know that newgroups
generally have posting guidelines. You can often find these guidelines in a
FAQ (answers to Frequently Asked Questions) document, available by FTP from
MIT (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/ and
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/) or UU.NET
(ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.answers/).
In the future, please use a more appropriate newsgroup; e.g.,
* Personal For Sale and Wanted posts generally belong only in *forsale* and
*market* newsgroups.
* Commercial ads and "infomercials" generally belong only in biz.* or other
newsgroups that specifically allow them; most do not. (See
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/misc.forsale/Misc.FS+Biz.Mktplc_ADVERTISING_FAQ--INFO_FOR_NEW_USERS)
* Help/position wanted notices generally belong only in *contract* and/or
*jobs* newsgroups.
* Announcements generally do not belong in discussion newsgroups. There
are newsgroups devoted to announcements (e.g., comp.archives.msdos.announce,
comp.os.ms-windows.announce, comp.infosystems.www.announce, etc.).
* Messages not of general interest (e.g., personal messages, apologies,
thank-you's, off-topic complaints) are generally not appropriate. (If you
need the email address of someone that has posted to Usenet, see
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/finding-addresses)
* Test messages should only be sent to a 'test' newsgroup.
* Chain-letter and pyramid schemes do not belong on the Internet (not to
mention being illegal).
* Binaries (e.g., uuencoded programs) should never be posted to discussion
newsgroups; most discussion newsgroups do not permit binary postings. Post
binaries to a *binaries* newsgroup only, with a notice in relevant
discussion newsgroup(s). Note that copyrighted material may only be
distributed with the express consent of the copyright holder.
Thank you for your cooperation!
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Best regards,
John mailto:JNa...@NavasGrp.com http://web.aimnet.com/~jnavas/
Anirvan Chatterjee
: I would like to announce the SF Bay Area automated
: alumni e-mail registry and alumni bulletin board located in
: http://www.infophil.com/USA/Alumni/SFBA . The WWW page includes
I think the biggest problem here wasn't the fact that it was posted on
ba.internet (it's marginally appropriate here, imho), but that this same
message was emailed to perhaps thousands of users. I received two copies
of it in two accounts of mine. At least a dozen of my friends from high
school have received it. I think the service is a nice idea, but what an
ugly way to publicize it...
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