Big news about the hobbyist license program
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I wonder if this is why I haven't heard back about the ambassador program. Or been given a link to the VMDK.craigberry wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 9:44 amCan someone explain exactly what this means? It almost sounds as if you are saying that if VSI has sent you bulk mail in the past and not consistently gotten read receipts for it that they will block you for all mail, including notifications about your CL application?noci wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 12:09 pmFrom issue:
SPS-1521
Tracking is used to see if mail is "read"...., After 6 "unread" mails one is dropped from the list.
Also i do hardly read any HTML makeup in mail, the ASCII version has a lot less chance to auto-invoke al kinds of rubbish..
I do suppress tracking ==> .... appearantly this was mail 7, 8 ....
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> I wonder if this is why I haven't heard back about the ambassador
> program. Or been given a link to the VMDK.
I doubt it. I re-applied for the Community License Program, and got
the "Your Community License Package" e-mail about 20 hours later.
Whether that was a response to the new application or the previous
participation, I don't know.
I also applied for the Ambassador Program on 1 April, and have heard
nothing about it.
> That would mean : everyone using OpenVMS mail is dropped (sic..)
I still struggle along trying to use VMS MAIL, and that doesn't seem
to have prevented my receiving anything, only made reading it less
convenient.
I do occasionally copy an especially opaque VMS MAIL message to a
MAIL file to which I point a Mac Mail IMAP account, so I can't
absolutely guarantee that a message to me from VSI hasn't been touched
by a modern e-mail client, but it'd happen infrequently, if ever. (Mac
Mail has serious problems with the TCPIP IMAP server, too, so this is
far from being a satisfactory scheme. Especially now that Google mail
servers require authentication which TCPIP lacks.)
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> [...] doesn't that seem a bit entitled? [...]
This question comes from someone who expects to get something
valuable from a for-profit corporation at no cost whatsoever?
I'm not satisfied by the revised "Community" program, but I don't
presume to have all the data on the costs and benefits (or lack thereof)
of such programs to VSI.
Also, regarding goal-directed behavior in general, I wouldn't expect
direct insults to be an especially effective tool when trying to get
some benefit from the people who can provide it. Call me old-fashioned.
I agree. This is about the business case.sms wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 2:19 amI'm not satisfied by the revised "Community" program, but I don't
presume to have all the data on the costs and benefits (or lack thereof)
of such programs to VSI.
Also, regarding goal-directed behavior in general, I wouldn't expect
direct insults to be an especially effective tool when trying to get
some benefit from the people who can provide it. Call me old-fashioned.