Re: PEAR DB 1.6.0 has been released

ed.prochak_at_magicinterface.com (Ed prochak) writes:

>>.announce is a fair point, if there were an .announce group that
>>should probably be used instead. But there isn't.
>
>Depends.
>there's a comp.software.shareware.announce
>I thought there was a comp.software.announce but I'm wrong.

I don't think you're being fair, it doesn't make sense to put all different kinds of software release in one group and nobody could be expected to read it, except perhaps the maintainers of software archives. A newsgroup is a community of people interested in the same thing and 'people interested in Oracle and tools used with it' is a more identifiable group than 'people interested in software'.

In any case, PEAR DB is not shareware.

>there's a php.general

Yes, I would expect the announcement to be suitable for cross-posting between a PHP group and whatever the appropriate groups are for each database system. We are discussing whether in the case of Oracle the appropriate group is .misc or .marketplace.

>>.marketplace is not appropriate because it is not a commercial
>>announcement.

>This is where we disagree. It LOOKS commercial to me.

But do you think it _is_ commercial?

After all the charter doesn't say 'all messages that look vaguely commercial with a brief glance'; I don't know of any newsgroup that applies such a capricious rule. Surely you agree that what matters is the content of the article.

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Ed Avis <ed_at_membled.com>