Phil wrote:
> livecam wrote:
> > As a user of this group over some years there is one travel agent
> > whose "news releases" have been more than an annoying waste of
> > bandwidth for far too long. Now there are 3-4 of these people just
> > cramming the group with their "releases" and "information". Every 4th
> > or 5th post originates from these sources and it is getting
> > difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff.
It's much more than separating wheat from the chaff.
What Ray Goldenberg is doing is against USENET Guidelines for
ALL newsgroups. His indiscriminant "news releases" are all
preludes to "come visit my website and patronize my business".
Blatently obvious ADS.
> rec.travel.cruises is NOT moderated.
Not correct. It is, according to USENET guidelines, SELF moderated,
for those groups that do not have individual designated as its
moderator.
rec.travel.air is a group POORLY moderated by its members for
USENET violations on ADs, relative to one Ray Goldenberg.
> Further Travel agents are encouraged to participate as it says above.
Yes, they are. And many in this group are good citizens who are TAs.
They participate in the discussion without spamming the group with
thinly disguised ads.
>
> One could consider the "sig files" as solicitation BUT they are allowed
> under news group etiquette. They should not be more than 4 lines.
That is technically correct.
But it would take a fool not to see through Ray's AD in the form of
: come visit my webpage and patronize my business, as soon as
he posted those "news releases" to serve as excuse for his own AD.
This month's top posters
8 jsis...@sprynet.com
8 r...@lighthousetravel.com
All time top posters
17985 r...@lighthousetravel.com
If Ray does the same thing he does in most of the newsgroups
in which I've participated, his ADs would have been sniffed out
with a post or two and he would have been driven off by
the GROUP, as self-moderated on the anti-netiquette and
anti-USENET-guidelines of Ray's ads.
-- Bob.
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