On Mon, March 23, 2015 05:24, Nux! wrote:
I find this very, very sad.
I find it unsavoury. We are recommending that acknowledged newbies subscribe to a service known for repeatedly and persistently violating its members' privacy?
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:53 AM, James B. Byrne byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca wrote:
On Mon, March 23, 2015 05:24, Nux! wrote:
I find this very, very sad.
I find it unsavoury. We are recommending that acknowledged newbies subscribe to a service known for repeatedly and persistently violating its members' privacy
How would you get the message to such people to inform them that alternatives exist? (this is rhetorical, so don't answer). And this has nothing to do with CentOS. If there's a platform that can be used to promote CentOS, then it should be used if there is a suitable audience there.
❧ Brian Mathis @orev
James B. Byrne wrote:
On Mon, March 23, 2015 05:24, Nux! wrote:
I find this very, very sad.
I find it unsavoury. We are recommending that acknowledged newbies subscribe to a service known for repeatedly and persistently violating its members' privacy?
And as far as I'm concerned, the website software looks like it was written by liberal arts majors.... I mean, *I* can't figure out how to navigate the site, and those annoying notifications - some of the time it mentions a link, but when I go to the site by clicking the link, it's the top of someone's page, and I can't even find what the post the link was referring to....
mark, very much missing the old days of usenet
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 8:53 AM, James B. Byrne byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca wrote:
On Mon, March 23, 2015 05:24, Nux! wrote:
I find this very, very sad.
I find it unsavoury. We are recommending that acknowledged newbies subscribe to a service known for repeatedly and persistently violating its members' privacy?
There is a real simple answer to privacy on facebook. Just don't post anything there that you would not want to be public. Just like this mail list.
Le 23/03/2015 17:26, Les Mikesell a écrit :
There is a real simple answer to privacy on facebook. Just don't post anything there that you would not want to be public. Just like this mail list.
I recently joined that list and wanted to publish a simple link to my technical blog dedicated to CentOS (http://kikinovak.wordpress.com). There's no commercial interest behind it, only the wish to share my personal configurations. The Facebook group sees it as "self-promotion" and doesn't want to publish it. On the other hand, you're allowed to publish jokes without any problem.
I couldn't quite grasp the concept behind it, so I left the group.
Cheers,
Niki
That's ridiculous. People promote their businesses. Celebrities have their pages.
(Sent from iPhone, so please accept my apologies in advance for any spelling or grammatical errors.)
On Mar 23, 2015, at 11:44 AM, Niki Kovacs info@microlinux.fr wrote:
Le 23/03/2015 17:26, Les Mikesell a écrit :
There is a real simple answer to privacy on facebook. Just don't post anything there that you would not want to be public. Just like this mail list.
I recently joined that list and wanted to publish a simple link to my technical blog dedicated to CentOS (http://kikinovak.wordpress.com). There's no commercial interest behind it, only the wish to share my personal configurations. The Facebook group sees it as "self-promotion" and doesn't want to publish it. On the other hand, you're allowed to publish jokes without any problem.
I couldn't quite grasp the concept behind it, so I left the group.
Cheers,
Niki
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Niki Kovacs wrote:
Le 23/03/2015 17:26, Les Mikesell a écrit :
There is a real simple answer to privacy on facebook. Just don't post anything there that you would not want to be public. Just like this mail list.
I recently joined that list and wanted to publish a simple link to my technical blog dedicated to CentOS (http://kikinovak.wordpress.com). There's no commercial interest behind it, only the wish to share my personal configurations. The Facebook group sees it as "self-promotion" and doesn't want to publish it. On the other hand, you're allowed to publish jokes without any problem.
I couldn't quite grasp the concept behind it, so I left the group.
Wait... isn't ALL OF FACEBOOK self-promotion? Do they even let, I dunno, rappers and TV personalities and such *have* facebook accounts?
mark
On 2015-Mar-23 17:44, Niki Kovacs wrote:
I recently joined that list and wanted to publish a simple link to my technical blog dedicated to CentOS (http://kikinovak.wordpress.com).
Too bad it's not in English. It would be interesting to follow your posts as you discover CentOS more and more, given that I also used Slackware.
There's no commercial interest behind it, only the wish to share my personal configurations. The Facebook group sees it as "self-promotion" and doesn't want to publish it. On the other hand, you're allowed to publish jokes without any problem.
I couldn't quite grasp the concept behind it, so I left the group.
Le 26/03/2015 11:27, Прокси a écrit :
Too bad it's not in English. It would be interesting to follow your posts as you discover CentOS more and more, given that I also used Slackware.
Well, the *nix bits are international :o)
On 3/23/2015 9:26 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
There is a real simple answer to privacy on facebook. Just don't post anything there that you would not want to be public. Just like this mail list.
You don't have to post, fecebook also tracks what you read and uses that to build profiles of you which are sold to advertisers.
Les Mikesell wrote:
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 8:53 AM, James B. Byrne byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca wrote:
On Mon, March 23, 2015 05:24, Nux! wrote:
I find this very, very sad.
I find it unsavoury. We are recommending that acknowledged newbies subscribe to a service known for repeatedly and persistently violating its members' privacy?
There is a real simple answer to privacy on facebook. Just don't post anything there that you would not want to be public. Just like this mail list.
I think my profile there - I had to sign up, a few years ago, because it was the only place I could buy someone's membership for a con - says, "I hate facebook, if you want me, email me".
mark
For me the main problem is the fact it is not a public place which I should be able to read without a facebook login.
What is this? State within a state, Internet within Internet?
How bad would it be if the mailing lists of open source projects were not public? To what would the search engines point you when you were looking for a solution to a problem? How would you follow discussions and so on..
-- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology!
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On Mon, March 23, 2015 05:24, Nux! wrote:
I find this very, very sad.
I find it unsavoury. We are recommending that acknowledged newbies subscribe to a service known for repeatedly and persistently violating its members' privacy?
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