Re: PEAR DB 1.6.0 has been released

Galen Boyer <galenboyer@hotpop.com> wrote in message news:<uwu69g7c4.fsf@standardandpoors.com>... > On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, damorgan@x.washington.edu wrote: > > > All SPAM is bad spam. I don't care if you are giving it away > > for free. I don't care if you personally show up, install it, > > configure it train on it, and then give me a check for $50: It > > is still spam. > > I'm on the fence on this one. What is different from what this > guy posted and what Jonathan Lewis posts every month? > > Sure, Jonathan is a great contributor, and well respected, but he > is "advertising" a site. Is it so different, or is every > posting's "Spam rating" to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. > I would never call Jonathan's postings spam, but I also have a > hard time truly distinquishing that from the original posting in > this thread. > > About a year ago, I had embarked on building an open source Oracle > extension to Emacs to allow for dynamic query building within > Emacs by interacting with metadata from Oracle. I never finished > it, but had I actually published it to the Open source community, > I certainly would have let people in this group know. Would I > have been chastised for that? I agree with you on Jonathan's posts, especially as he is top-posting his 'advertisement' for his courses and his site. I must say it annoys me, especially in thoses cases he only posts a 1-lined comment. In the end, even Jonathan is not more equal than other's. If he would only include the url of his site, I would have no problem with that. What I consider spam is every 'free download' which's ultimate purpose is to attract you to a commercial site. Those posts are just like holding up a carott for a rabitt: in the end the vendor has trapped you, and you will end up in his Christmas dish. Regards Sybrand Bakker Senior Oracle DBA