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Anne's mistake had an interesting response. Like Elliott and Duncan I've often felt it would be good if this list rec'd all those news-mails, as they inform about s'ware development and relevant current activities and events that otherwise we won't know of - and keeping up with an overview of qual software development is part of what this list does. Many of the software developers have an email news-mail every month or so - highly important to keep in touch with users. (QSR does one no more than once a month, summarizing the news in its most recent newsletter, which is up on the website.) The problem isn't, surely, that these news-mails promote that developer's software and services. Of course they are restricted to that software - their audience is its users. This list is surely able to interpret such material appropriately. However taking such mails might count as spamming (email newsletters legally can go only to those who have asked to receive them, and must carry an offer to unsubscribe) and whether or not it was legal, it might mean too much newsletter-traffic, and lose this list subscribers. An alternative would be for the list to approve that when developers have a new newsletter they post it on their sites and mail the URL to this list, so listmembers can go read it if they wish. Ann, Christina, do you want to rule from CAQDAS? cheers, Lyn Lyn Richards, Director, Research Services, QSR. (Email) [log in to unmask] (Ph) +61 (03) 9840-1100. (Fax) +61 (03) 9840-1500 (Snail) Second floor, 651 Doncaster Rd., Doncaster, Vic 3108, Australia. http://www.qsrinternational.com -----Original Message----- From: qual-software [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Elliot Richmond Sent: Saturday, 15 May 2004 3:06 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Apologize for unintended mailing At 11:47 AM 5/14/04, Duncan Branley wrote: >--On 14 May 2004 15:47 +0200 Anne Kuckartz <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >>Dear All, >>we apologize for any annoyance we might have caused by sending the MAXqda >>newsletter to the list!! > >I thought it was interesting and a useful thing to post, Anne, even though >we don't use MAXqda. A monthly newsletter should be perfectly legitimate. I >would only mind should we be bombarded with emails. I agree with Duncan. I read the newsletter and thought, "Hmmm..., Good idea." I don't use MaxQDA either, but one never knows when one might learn something. Elliot Richmond PhD candidate in science education UT Austin [log in to unmask] http://home.austin.rr.com/elliotandkathy/