Short story-- (archive)

--Philippe crossed the line from providing helpful information to just posting spam to draw traffic to his site. He was asked (repeatedly) to please stick to on-topic posts and not to just make posts saying "come to my site", but he did not comply.

As for ways to contact Charlie or me, have I ever received an email from you to which I did not reply? Your comment seems to imply that this is the case. If it is, I apologize. I have a "real" job and can't devote 24/7 to the boards. When I'm not working 60 hours a week at my real job, I try to put in about 40 on the boards--and I know Charlie puts in something like 12 or 13 hours a day on the boards--and it still isn't enough. It certainly isn't even physically possible for us to read every one of the several thousand posts made on all the message boards every day, so email is the best means of contacting us.

Stan's post was right on target--Philippe could feel free to email Charlie about the ban to ask that it be reconsidered. Unfortunately, I saw that just last week Philippe had another board member make a post for him that was nothing more than spam linking to his site, so it looks like he hasn't learned.

I am sure he has a very useful and helpful site. That doesn't give him the right to post link after link to it with no other information in his posts--imagine if everyone with a helpful BMW web site did that here! We don't go around posting links to bimmer.org on other BMW mailing lists or web sites, and we ask that people use the same level of courtesy when posting here.

Alan

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I'm sorry it might be a good reason, but I think Laszlo 12:54 7/02/2001 (0)
Re: Short story-- Kurt.G 11:48 7/02/2001 (0)

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