MARKED FOR POOP Re: PEAR DB 1.6.0 has been released - now OT if not originally

Daniel,

Your latest post has been marked as "POOP" and entered into our database. Additionally, our judges have downgraded your status from rock to lime.

Ratings are determined solely on the quality your posts, if you can somehow produce better quality communications we will of course upgrade your rating. As you may or may not know, diamond is our highest rating, dirt is our lowest. Lime is one rating up from dirt, so you may want to consider some sort of training to get your posts back to Rock.

You can appeal our decision after 30 days, by submitting proof of a diaper change. A digital image of a clean diaper is typically enough to get the status changed, but the image must contain a picture of you holding the diaper and it must not show the slightest hint of skid marks or other soil. If the judges do not grant the appeal you can usually get upgraded in 60 days automatically if you have not had any other posts of a nature that would show soil.

Incidentally, PEAR is not written by a commercial entity, and is not a commercial business or enterprise or vendor as you had erroneously stated. PEAR is a contribution from the Open Source community to the PHP developer community. PHP connects to many databases, as well as being one of the most popular programming environments available, and is completely free of charge to anyone that wants to use it. Announcements about PEAR and PHP are not SPAM. Posts like yours are however, completely stinky POOP.

-IPP- "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:1077725344.716058_at_yasure...
> Jonathan Leffler wrote:
> > Nonsense wrote:
> >
> >> SPAM
> >
> >
> > In comp.databases.informix, your posting was fine. I suspect the same
> > was true of comp.databases.ibm-db2, but would defer to the denizens of
> > that group if there is disagreement.
> >
> > It appears that your posting to comp.databases.oracle.server and
> > comp.databases.oracle.misc was misguided under the rules of those
> > groups. In future, post to comp.databases.oracle.marketplace - simply
> > to avoid the barrage of negative emails. I agree that it seems
> > unnecessarily hostile - maybe they simply aren't attuned to open source.
>
> Au contraire. We are very attuned to open source. But when one
> allows one vendor to post a message all others take that as an
> invitation: Open season.
>
> It is incumbent upon all persons posting to all usenet groups to
> read the group's charter and follow it. The Oracle group's charter
> specifically sets aside a group for such messages.
>
> At the very least those that post are guilty of being rude. And
> that alone is enough to justify calling them spammers and to
> encourage others to not do business with them. Even Oracle Corp.
> itself is not exempt from following the rules. If someone finds
> it too much of a burden to read the Charter and follow the rules
> likely they are no someone we would wish to do business with.
>
> --
> Daniel Morgan
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Received on Wed Feb 25 2004 - 19:37:04 CST