[Koha] How to handle the support providers list (was Re: Spam from BestBookBuddies (OpenLX))

[Jonathan Druart]

Just to cross the topics, we already had this discussion earlier:
https://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2015-July/043138.html
"Proposal to remove the 'Paid support' list"

On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 at 12:17 Mark Tompsett <mtompset at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Nathan A. Curulla suggested:
> > Maybe we should change the listing to “contributing support companies” or
> > something like that.
>
> While I think that is a good idea, and then companies without community
> participation get removed, the problem still remains: people don't read.
> We've put a nice disclaimer that this is not an official list and has no
> official seal of approval meaning to the list, and yet people still use it
> that way. It is impossible to educate people who refuse to read, even
> though
> the preamble write up is a rather good explanation of how to look for a
> Koha
> support provider. As such, the only reasonable course of action is to
> delete
> the list, otherwise it will continue to be used that way, no matter what we
> put on the page(s).
>
>
> Owen Leonard wrote:
> > It would be a duplicate listing ... and should be rejected.
>
> Who determines it is a duplicate listing? Because last time I looked some
> other entries looked like duplicates to me, much like OpenLX/BBB. And
> cleaning up duplicates is a pain. Yet another reason to just delete the
> list
> already.
>
> GPML,
> Mark Tompsett
>
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