On Wednesday 03 August 2005 02:16, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 06:32:44PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > Unsolicited Commercial Email. Please pay the standard $2000 fee for > > advertisments on Debian mailing lists. > > Y'know, it's fine if you think that Bruce's mail was inappropriate for the > list, and there's nothing wrong with saying so; but claiming that a message > that isn't selling anything is UCE, and attempting to enforce against a > member of the community an advertising policy that daily goes unenforced > against thousands of more deserving souls, just makes you sound like an > asshole and an idiot.
How does an asshole sound, anyway? (i.e. please avoid that word). Adam's right, as I see it. Bruce's mail didn't belong on -devel [0]. When he chose to post anyway, he didn't prefix his subject with OT:, and on top of that, top-posts his answers [1]. Correct me, if any of this is wrong. As I see it, Bruce's posting to -devel should be considered harmless, but that does not change the fact that it didn't belong here. Job opportunities are not a technical development topic. What about creating a dd-contact(at)lists.debian.org-list, so outsiders have a channel of communication to the people who reads -devel? Regards, Anders Breindahl. [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel: Discussion about technical development topics. [1] Yes, I know that there is no homogeneous opinion on this. I found it worth mentioning.
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