Re: PEAR DB 1.6.0 has been released
If somebody posts a url they're inviting you to be 'trapped' like a rabbit? Excuse me? There are plenty of communal websites we all visit from time to time when looking for nuggets. The goal is not to cr*p up the newsgroup with thousand line applicable posts when only 5 people care - in those cases we put whatever it is on a website and invite the audience to visit if they care about it. This is hardly 'trapping' you or anyone else. The websites I put stuff on are the iiug wite and the artentech site, occasionally I write an article of interest and IBM puts it on the developer zone webpage. When I refer to those articles, I always post the web address of the article in question. I can't speak for IBM, and I no longer put stuff on iiug because I can't speak for them either, but I can speak for artentech - there is nothing on that website to 'trap' you. If you have no interest in the topic in question then fine, don't visit. If you want to browse that page and not visit the rest of the site - fine, go for it, there are no navigational nightmares, no registration hassles, no cookies - nada. I fail to see how this 'traps' anyone You suggest that we change our .sigs to not include websites of potential interest? Which define some aspect of who we are and what we do? How silly. Better take your name, email address and job description off your posts as well. How am I to seek wisdom at the feet of Daniel Morgan without noting the invitation to take the courses that he teaches? toodles j. ----- Original Message ----- From: <sybrandb@yahoo.com> To: <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 9:52 AM Subject: 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 > sending to informix-list