Thank you for the feedback, although this is in fact a technical solution I never intended to offend anyone. I have submitted fixes to haproxy in the past but have not as you say responded to questions before this.
thanks again for the feedback -mark On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 2:03 PM, Willy Tarreau <w...@1wt.eu> wrote: > Mark, > > On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 10:40:38AM -0700, Mark Lakes wrote: > > For commercial purposes, see Signal Sciences Next Gen WAF solution: > > https://www.signalsciences.com/waf-web-application-firewall/ > > Advertising for commercial products on an open source list is never welcome > especially when such a response looks like it's made only to try to place a > product and nor really to propose a technical solution (and it's not as if > you had ever responded to a question here prior to this one). > > A large number of commercial product vendors are represented here, some of > whom invest a lot in R&D and support, some even competing in certain areas, > and all of them respect this basic rule, focusing only on sharing knowledge > and improvements to haproxy. A few times I've even rejected requests from > some of my coworkers who asked if it was OK to respond to someone with a > link to one of HapTech's commercial solutions and I'm pretty sure others > do the same in other companies. > > Given the complaints we used to have in the past with the spams on the > list, > I'm pretty sure that most of the list's participants would prefer that the > list remains free of any form of advertising so that we can continue to > work > all together without being polluted nor starting to suspect that each > proposal > or question would derive to another ad. > > Also, I'm normally not the one who'd comment on each other's signature, but > this one occupies almost half of my 80x24 response e-mail window, full of > links and even trackers as if you were trying hard to make a bit of SEO, > and this is quite impolite to many users, so I think it would be reasonable > to significantly trim it down : > > > *Mark Lakes* > > Sr Software Engineer > > (555) 555-5555 > > <https://www.signalsciences.com/?utm_source=emailsig> > > Winner: InfoWorld Technology of the Year 2018 > > <https://www.infoworld.com/article/3251828/application- > development/infoworlds-2018-technology-of-the-year-award- > winners.html#slide24> > > <https://www.facebook.com/SignalSciences/> > > <https://twitter.com/signalsciences> > > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/signal-sciences/> > > You will simply not find this from most of the regular participants on this > list and many would probably like to take the opportunity as well but > refrain > from doing so to respect others. So at least being the only one to post > like > this should give you a hint how to proceed in the future. > > Thanks, > Willy >
