Re: New mailing list searchable archives

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Marco Tabini wrote: > Also, I'm not sure that I understand your point about announcing this to > the public. I remember that short ago a news item was announced about > the International PHP Magazine (which is published by S&S, AFAIK) now > publishing news items on their site. At the time, although *many* other > sites (yes, including php|a) publish news items, I thought it was a > useful service for the community, and I though announcing it on php.net > was a good move on the part of the webmasters. Frankly I didn't agree with that either, I'm not sure though if I expressed it on this list. > Finally, it may not be php.net's goal to offer free marketing to any > given company, but it should be its goal, in my opinion, to offer the > community the best tools available. Now, if you think that our tool is > not the best available, then by all means do tell us what you think is > wrong, and if there's anything that we can do to make it better, rest > assured that we will. Constructive critiquing is the reason why I took > the time to publish this on other sites, including php|a and my blog, so > that it could be checked out by the community we serve before being > submitted to php.net for consideration. > > Otherwise please, be kind, next time check your facts before making this > kind of comments. My point was NOT that this service you have is not a good one, the point is that I don't want to see php.net turning into a fight between MTA and S&S, which is clearly happening now. Changing all our links to archives from Marc to your site which has Google ads and advertisements to products in your shop is definitely *wrong*. Derick -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ JDI Media Solutions http://www.jdimedia.nl/ International PHP Magazine http://www.php-mag.net/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------