It always been OK, but there is obvious common sense involved, such as not posting such messages every week. For a start, I make a lot of my living writing professional ANTLR grammars and occasionally, you need to ask for work... which reminds me...
But, in general I would shy away from appointing yourself unofficial arbitrator of the list. The list is basically whatever Ter says it is; the poster was polite enough to ask if it was OK to post and so that's that. Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:antlr-interest- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Bart Kiers > Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 1:32 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] interest > Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Do you need an ANTLR programmer? > > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:23 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 5/30/2011 11:20 PM, Bart Kiers wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:13 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 5/30/2011 10:41 PM, Bart Kiers wrote: > >> > >>> Could you stop spamming the ANTLR mailing list please? > >>> > >>> Bart. > >>> > >>> You may not know that but > >> As I was worried that that this mail can be perceived as a spam, I > >> asked Terence Parr if it is ok, if I send a mail here. To my > >> surprise, he said yes. > >> > > > > How could I know? You might have included that information from the > > get-go. I am sure that I am not the only one being annoyed by such > messages. > > And are you planning to spam this mailing list on a regular basis? Or > > just once? > > > > Bart. > > > > > > > > Now you know. Sorry for not mentioning it in the mail.. (I considered > > it) I am not sure if you agree with me but if it is allowed, it > cannot > > be called spam. > > > > Well, the over-all definition of spam is this: "Spam is the use of > electronic messaging systems [...] to send unsolicited bulk messages > indiscriminately." > It _is_ unsolicited since no one asked for it. You may have gotten > approval from someone, but that doesn't mean it's not unsolicited. So > yes, it sure is spam. > > > > > At the moment, Just once now. > > > > I really hope so. If every self-employed developer starts spamming the > list, it'd become a mess. > > Bart. > > PS. I cc-ed the list so that others are aware of the fact it's now okay > to advertise one selves here. > > > > > > > Márton > > > > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic) > > List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest > Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your- > email-address List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email-address -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "il-antlr-interest" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/il-antlr-interest?hl=en.
