Re: PEAR DB 1.6.0 has been released

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:22:39 -0800
Message-ID: <1077751321.338234@yasure>

Ed Avis wrote:

> Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> writes:
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>>>If you consider that posting details of PEAR is spam, what is the
>>>appropriate forum for such announcements?

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>>Had you read the FAQ for these groups you would have seen that we
>>intentionally created a group for those with products and services so
>>that they would have a place to post without antagonizing their
>>customers. That place is:
>>
>>comp.databases.oracle.marketplace.

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> Looking at the charter of that group it says
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>>Comp.databases.oracle.marketplace is a news group provided for
>>commercially oriented topics of interest to people using Oracle
>>software.

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> It does not seem to be the right place for non-commercial
> announcements. From reading the charters, they seem to better bleong
> on comp-databases.oracle.misc.
>
> What part of the charter prohibits announcement of non-commercial
> projects (such as the free PEAR database access library for PHP) on
> comp.databases.oracle.misc?

The fact that you are making something available at no cost does not make it non-commercial.

Either way ... the members of this group have clearly spoken on your and others similar postings. We do not want them here. Now if you think offending people will get you page requests and goodwill you come from a very different world than I do. So even if you truly believe we are wrong, even if you truly believe that you can better interpret our charter than we can, consider the fact that you are not just right ... you are dead right. And that won't serve your best interests no matter what they may be.

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Received on Wed Feb 25 2004 - 17:22:39 CST