CentOS - Mar 2015 - Facebook CentOS group close to 15.000 members!

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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On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:53 AM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at 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 at 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.

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Le 23/03/2015 17:26, Les Mikesell a ?crit :
> 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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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..

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>
> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
> Sent: Monday, 23 March, 2015 13:53:25
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Facebook CentOS group close to 15.000 members!
> 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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> Hamilton, Ontario             fax: +1 905 561 0757
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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.


-- 
john, recycling bits in santa cruz

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 8:53 AM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at
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