Re: Spammer! Re: [PHP] ANNOUNCING: Rekall V2.0.0 for Linux/UNIX....

If you had actually read the reply, you would have seen that Steve was commenting on your declaring the list an "open-source" list, not saying it was fine for John to send his email to this list (or any other list). --- "Apollo (Carmel Entertainment)" <lists@carmelme.com> wrote: > Well, lets see. I want free advertising too. How about I go to all > the lists I > am member of and send emails like John from Rekall did "announcing" > widgets or > services my company does. How will you react to that? We all have > something to > sell or advertise. Opensource or non-opensource, if you are > charging for > something you can not free-ride on free mailing lists, pay for > adveritising. If > something like that is tolerated, maybe I should start marketing my > stuff on all > the lists I am. > > > > At 7/7/2003 03:07 PM, Apollo (Carmel Entertainment) wrote: > > > > > If you are charing for your product and your source is not > open, you > > have no place on > > > opensource lists. > > > > Just out of curiosity, where did you get the idea this is an > "open source" > > mailing list? There are plenty of commercial PHP products that > have been > > mentioned and recommended by list members, including Zend > products. > > > > I'm not condoning posting ads to the list the way John, but I > think that > > declaring it an "open source" list will discourage people who > have created > > PHP-based systems that aren't free or open-source from > contributing. > > > > > > -- > > S. Keller > > UI Engineer > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > ===== Mark Weinstock mark_weinstock@yahoo.com *************************************** You can't demand something as a "right" unless you are willing to fight to death to defend everyone else's right to the same thing. *************************************** __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com