Shapira, Yoav said: > > And this IS the velocity users list after all. Aren't velocity > > applications relevant? > > Depends whom you ask: clearly no one can stop you from posting > sales/marketing notices for your products. I like it when people obey > the guidelines for Apache mailing lists (as defined here: > http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html), which do not include > unsolicited advertising.
neither do they ban it. that's an argument from silence. the guidelines merely indicate that posts should be relevant to the list. > It's nice that your product is free and open-source, and congratulations > on having a version available for the public. But I get so much mail on > these mailing lists (I'm a moderator for a few as well, including a > couple that are have much more traffic than velocity-user) that I'm > sensitive to (what are, in my opinion) inappropriate uses. give me a break! since when is it inappropriate to talk about related open source projects on user lists? no man^H^H^Hproject is an island. i think posts such as the one in question are not only appropriate but should be encouraged! if people are working on open source projects that use Velocity, then i *want* to hear about it, and i can think of no better place to post such notices than this list. synergy. it's a good thing. if nothing else, can you at least make an attempt at being constructively critical and suggest an alternate place where Brad and others can let people know about related projects? or do you have something against building community between related projects? Nathan Bubna [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
