Re: [ANNOUNCE] Senora: a replacement for sqlplus

On Tue, 08 Apr 2003, damorgan_at_exxesolutions.com wrote:

> There is a substantial difference between posting as many do
> ... help in response to an inquiry and including contact
> information or a reference to a commercial product that is a
> direct solution to the problem at hand ... and a message whose
> sole purpose is to flog a product for which the poster has a
> direct commercial interest.

But, you seemed to have apologized for blasting this guy who spent his time creating an open-source tool for Oracle development which we might all benefit from but in the same posting you still talk about spam and commercial messages, somehow trying to justify your knee-jerk reactions.

Why don't you just admit that you have knee jerk reactions and straight apologize to the guy. Don't postpend it with, "Well, spammers ..." You blasted some open source developer for creating an oracle tool that we might find useful. Why is there any difference to this than what Jonathan Lewis does with his FAQ, but, of course, no knee-jerk reactions from you when Jonathan posts. Hm...

> Vladimir, for example, makes it possible for those who are
> interested to contact him. But his postings are always on-topic
> and not just intended to put cash into his bank account. Tom
> Kyte has mentioned his book numerous times but never once has
> he posted a message that is just "Buy my book."
>
> Once we tolerate pure commercial postings we will have them
> every vendor of everything from databases to products claiming
> to increase the size of various body parts. You either draw the
> line at no spam or you will get it all.

The point is this wasn't spam. Once you quit knee-jerk preaching and spend a little more time reading the posts that make you want to preach, you might find that lots of the people you quickly decide to yell at actually have good things to say/ask.

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Galen Boyer