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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 02:14:50 +0000 (UTC)
From: Craig's Saab C900 Site <c900nospam.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: Saabnet is blocking my posts again! Saabnet censorhip continues.


"Tex" <texnospamm101.org> writes: >"Craig's Saab C900 Site" <c900nospam.apana.org.au> wrote in message > >I admit I've only on a few occasions visited the saabnet site and maybe once >on your site (i honestly couldn't give you an opinion of the quality of >their content). I, for one, and I think most others here, prefer this >newsgroup type of community forum (as opposed to web forums). This >newsgroup is tough to beat for raw/totally uncensored peer-to-peer content >with, for the most part, a guaranteed low rate of spam & advertisements. >Post on any Saab topic you want and you'll pretty much always get a bevy of >quality/intelligent responses. I'm definitely in agreeance that this newsgroup works very well. That's (IMHO anywany) mainly because Saab's are fairly esoteric so the quantity of trash postings is very low compared to a lot of other newsgroups, and this encourages good quality discussions with a fairly short 'latency' between posts and followups. >No offense intended, imho, but you come off sounding a bit jealous of >saabnet's alleged commercial success (and/or its success in garnering >significant web traffic). Yes and no. Anyone's welcome to derive commercial gain if they can providing it doesn't affect others. Saabnet's pretty much innocent there. I just disagree with Scott's policy of instantly barring someone who might include a link in a posting which goes to another site which has forums (as one example of the stuff he is unable to tolerate existing at other sites). If I posted something on Saabnet and the posting included something about nospam or nospam.co.uk it would probably result in the same thing happening. > Yes, Saabnet (and I presume Scott, its owner), >has a certain commercially driven agenda. Given that, it's not very >surprising they want to "protect" their interests. "Protection" might >include blocking blatant adverts for other competing sites. Such adverts >would be akin to hanging a BMW banner on the front door of Saab's >headquarters....why would Saab put up with that? They'd probably have the >person who hung the banner, arrested....and rightfully so. Quite possibly, but the fact that bulletin-board access at Saabnet doesn't require becoming a paid member means that Scott (and anyone else who admins the site with him) should by inference be tolerant of discussions where others sites which might or might not have Saab-related forums get mentioned in postings either directly as references during discussions, as website links relating to the author of the posting, etc. Scott doesn't allow that - it's a bit of a dichotomy to make forums available for unrestricted public consumption but still 'censor' postings to create the impression that Saabnet is the only site which has Saab-related forums for people who only go to Saabnet for whatever reason. I support Saabnet for what it is, but not for what it does. Like everything else, it's a case of caveat emptor (aka buyer beware). I don't tell people who ask me that using Saabnet is bad because the Saabnet boards are actually very good IMHO - I just point out the incongruous approach to tolerance of other Saab-related resources that happen to offer some services that are similar to some of the things at Saabnet. Regards, Craig. -- Craig's Saab C900 Page --> http://nospam/~c900 Sydney, NSW Australia Craig's Saab C900 Workshop -- For all Saab C900 Enthusiasts world-wide! http://www.nospam.net http://www.nospam c900nospam.apana.org.au Come and explore our site, and check out our web-forums, mailing list, etc.

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