It's a dead list anyway. You should be happy that people in international health field contributing. How many times have you contributed, other than moaning about one e-mail. If you are not interested, PLEASE just press Delete button. You have 'wasted' more time in writing the following message, so obviously you have an agenda. By the way, I am a member of the list. For further computer support write to me privately. Alex Scott-Samuel the 'Marxist' in our list is more concerned about British NHS rather than equity in poorest nations of the world? Please get your ideology together. Thanks, Sanjoy. Date sent: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:08:45 +0100 Subject: RE: Unwanted advertising From: "Scott,A" <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Send reply to: "Scott,A" <[log in to unmask]> > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Alex Scott-Samuel [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > > Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 10:38 PM > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: Unwanted advertising > > > > Dear colleagues, > > Does anyone agree with me that the announcement > > below > > > [Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 20:23:27 +0100 > From: SK NAYAK <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Courses in Development Studies (Project Planning > and Management) > ] > > represents unwanted advertising and that we should > > attempt to deter people from circulating advertisements of > > this sort on health-equity-network? I should add that I > > normally have a pretty 'laid back' attitude to issues of > > this sort - but to me this is pure spam! > --------------------------------------------- > Dear all, > > I have just been complaining to Mailbase about real > spamming on other lists. However, it is fairly common > to have relevant course announcements on Mailbase lists, > and this posting comes from a list member, is not > commercial, and has a clear subject line enabling you > to ignore it if it doesn't interest you, so I wouldn't > regard it as spamming. > > I would encourage the listowner to set the Mailbase > options to Mailin: Off (so non-members cannot send > messages to the list) and Review: Off (so non-members > cannot obtain the e-mail addresses of members). Also, > I think messages to lists should be kept fairly short, > with an e-mail or web page address for obtaining > things like course details. > > Anne Scott. > > [log in to unmask] > > Dept of Social Policy > London School of Economics and Political Science > Houghton Street > London WC2A 2AE > > tel: 0207 955 6517 > fax: 0207 955 7415 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%