Re: !!ATTENTION DATABASE DEVELOPERS!! - Boycott boors who rudely advertise in news groups!

Tom Abraham (tabraham@concentric.net) wrote: : mr/scuba wrote: : > Boycott boors who rudely advertise in news groups! : > : While I certainly agree with the sentiment, I have to wonder if it will : be applied. I've often (OK, a few times), posted a response to an : article saying that I thought the post was more ad than not. I've been : "sent to the woodshed" each and every time (as I'll likely be for : posting this), and accused of not understanding that the poster was : "merely trying to help the original poster with INFORMATION". (I suspect : that a lot of this is because I mostly lurk and don't "advertise" and am : not seen as an "expert".) If an ad IS information, then why do people : get upset with SPAM?? There are a sufficient number of groups designated for posting Jobs. comp.databases.informix and many others in this crosspost list are NOT groups for posting jobs. I believe that if enough of us complain enough times, we'll get the attention of a couple of those who do this. The rest won't care what we think. : I'm not saying that people who work for a company that makes a product : that has features relevant to the topic should be prevented from : replying to messages on the topic. Far from it. I just think that, if a : person questions the intentions of a poster, said person doesn't : necessarily deserve to be flamed. : Does anyone ever wonder why some of these news groups have so few posts? : Or, why so few decent posts come from just a few people? Perhaps, if the : occassional poster weren't flamed for venturing out from cover to post, : then there would be more posts, for the benefit of all. Moreover, the quality of posts tend to decrease as the amount of SPAM and other unwanted posts increase. Those tired of it sometimes just go another way... -- gburnore@databasix.com mailto:gburnore@databasix.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- How you look depends on where you go. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary L. Burnore | '۳''''''۳'''''''''''۳ DataBasix | '۳''''''۳'''''''''''۳ San Francisco, CA | '۳''''''۳'''''''''''۳ | '۳ 3 4 1 4 2 '' 6 9 0 6 9 '۳ http://www.databasix.com | Official Proof of Purchase ===========================================================================