Bill Duggan Hearts City Paper, Continues to Piss Off Everyone Else
Neighborhood Listservs are no place to notify the neighborhood of local businesses that may serve the neighborhood. Or so says our friend Bill D over on the mostly-entertaining Second-Best Neighborhood Listserv. Uncle Bill offers this plea to his fellow angry Adams-Morganers:
Can we limit or eliminate the commercial use of the listserv? It doesn't matter if your business is yoga, furniture, real estate or restaurant/bar....it's still a business and this is not the place to advertise. City Paper or Craigslist are better suited to this purpose
Per usual, a flurry of responses (if Bill D is for it, well then, I'm against it) follow. Hey: at least he got the name right.
4:46 pm
Can we get a link to this thread? I want to see how the anti-Dugganites are spinning this. How can you possibly argue in favor of spam on community message boards?
5:40 pm
Ask and you shall receive:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AdamsMorgan/message/18902
But: for the record, these aren't posters offering to enlarge my penis. They want to sell me jewelry and yoga classes in my neighborhood. Annoying, yes, but should they be banned from an open Listserv?
7:22 pm
Yeah I guess it's more than just spam. It ticks me off when landscapers and people like that post ads on my community's listserv. But I wouldn't be Ok with banning certain kinds of messages on a message board that is supposed to serve a community. Still... businesses that are so cheap that they post ads on message boards need to seriously rethink things.
11:05 pm
It's a pointless thread - just people saying "it clutters," others saying "no it doesn't."
There you have it. No one's gonna be banned. Nothing's gonna be changed. It's just people's opinions about local businesses talking about or advertising their stuff.
Not that interesting.
3:10 pm
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