[c-nsp] OT: Plea for [snip]

[Jay Hennigan]

On 8/17/10 12:46 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote:

> I don't think you'd be saying this if half of California were under
> water (about the size affected in .pk), two thirds the population of CA
> were displaced by these floods, with 2000 dead, cholera breaking out,
> starvation looming for 6 million people due to the country's
> bread-basket being washed into the ocean and the United Nations calling
> it the worst humanitarian disaster in living memory.

And the situation is very well publicized worldwide.  Network news,
print newspapers, radio, television, portal sites such as Yahoo and CNN,
Red Cross campaigns, etc.  I very seriously doubt that anyone on this
list is learning about the situation here for the first time.

> And another thing: given the circumstances, equating Asif Gul Khan's
> email with spam is nauseously crass.

If Asif and the rest of us are members of multiple technical lists,
would it be appropriate for all of us to see this same message over and
over on each of them?

And if others are in the affected area, is it appropriate for each of
them to post similar pleas to each and every mailing list to which they
belong, regardless of the purpose of the list?

As a data point, according to the archives this is the first and only
post Asif has made to the list in over a year.  I only checked back as
far as August 2009.

> disgusted,

It is a slippery slope.  His is a worthy cause.  People are in need, no
question about it.  However if everyone with a worthy cause posted to
every unrelated forum, the signal-to-noise would become overwhelming.

Where would you draw the line?

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