Re: Appropriate Content
| From: | Curt Zirzow | Date: | Thu, 09 Oct 2003 04:50:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Appropriate Content | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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* Thus wrote Evan Nemerson (evan@coeus-group.com):
> Hey everyone.
>
> I just saw the lightspeed 1.1 release announcement. I know it's not in the
> rules right now, but I don't think product announcements are really
> appropriate for php-general. I can see, "Hey we've got this new server and we
> need PHP people to beta test it.", but not "Hey we've got this new server and
> we need people to buy it."
>
> I would suggest major releases only (litespeed 1.0 announcement ok, 1.1 not),
> but that draws an awefully subjective line...
>
> Anyways, IMHO product announcements should be outlawed here. Thoughts?
I dont know about outlawed, perhaps 'strongly discourged' is a more
friendly name :)
The thing is though I skipped over the litespeed thing like I did
that lotto post; Until, that is, a 30+ thread got involved :)
Curt
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