Re: Appropriate Content

For the record, in case anyone is misunderstanding me, I don't think commercial / F/OSS should matter in this regard. Product announcements are product announcments. Anyone else have an opinion? On Wednesday 08 October 2003 09:19 pm, Robert Cummings wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 23:51, Evan Nemerson wrote: > > 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? > > Personally I like product announcements whether they be commercial, open > source or whatnot. However, IMHO, the whole LightSpeed thing just > doesn't seem to be sufficiently on topic. > > Cheers, > Rob. -- Evan Nemerson evan@coeus-group.com -- "A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship." -Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy