See the SMART thing to do would have been to get a friend of his to recommend the product to the list -- that way it comes across as a recommendation and/or referral rather than a advertisement.
As a small business owner myself, I have sympathy for how hard it is to find free places to advertise. But, having said that, I also think it's important to respect the rules of the lists that you join.
As for the ensuing discussion-- I for one think it is healthy. Clearly this is an issue that people care about and it is very eye-opening to see the numerous reactions. It also has left me with the feeling that Perl developers -- at least the ones on this list -- have the capacity to be callous and somewhat ruthless in their vengeance. (Barring those of you who did not send callous or ruthless emails to the list).
As someone who is relatively new to this list this experience has been very edifying. I would ask two theoretical questions:
1. How do we approach this situation with compassion for all of the parties involved?
2. How do we set limits to the collective use of the resources-- in this case, the list, maintainance, etc?
If this deteriorates into an ego bashing fest, which it seems like it has the capacity to-- I will remove myself from this list very quickly. However, I hope that this experience opens new doors to a deeper understanding of how we interact with eachother and how to use this shared resource.
On 3/11/04 2:39 PM, Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj wrote:Let's discuss Perl IDE's on the Mac!
I thought the app looked neat and wouldn't have heard of it otherwise. Too bad, like most GUI Perl debuggers, it doesn't seem to support mod_perl debugging...
-John
