Re: PEAR DB 1.6.0 has been released

Ed Avis <ed_at_membled.com> wrote in message news:<l1oerjjzge.fsf_at_budvar.future-i.net>...
> ed.prochak_at_magicinterface.com (Ed prochak) writes:
>
> [PEAR DB]
>

[whether appropriate for oracle.misc discussed in a thread in just .misc]

>
> >None of the groups were .announce, .forsale or .marketplace.
>
> .announce is a fair point, if there were an .announce group that
> should probably be used instead. But there isn't.

Depends.
there's a comp.software.shareware.announce I thought there was a comp.software.announce but I'm wrong. there's a php.general

>
> .forsale is not appropriate because the program is not for sale.
point granted here.

> .marketplace is not appropriate because it is not a commercial
> announcement. (Again, I say this based on reading the charter for the
> .oracle.marketplace group.)

This is where we disagree. It LOOKS commercial to me.
>
> >Now I think we did discuss Jonathan's posts and the preferred place
> >for them is still the marketplace group. But his posts in the other
> >ORACLE groups have been tolerated since he does CONTRIBUTE to those
> >groups. Has the OP, Analysis&Solutions
> >(info_at_analysisandsolutions.com) contributed anything here?
>
> I think you should just the article, not the poster.

My comment was in the context of why we jumped on this poster but not those of someone else. In that context I stand by my remark. (note this is an oracle.misc issue)
>
> Is the article about PEAR DB ontopic for the group?
discussed elsewhere in an oracle.misc thread

> >Well a google search in c.d.oracle.* shows only 4 posts by that
> >email, one is the original PEAR advert, the other three were all
> >Questions about date formatting. So I conclude that he contributes
> >NOTHING to comp.databases.oracle.*
>
> If he has posted a helpful announcement about PEAR DB, and that
> program is related to Oracle, then he has contributed something.
>
> But again, judge each article on its merits, don't just the poster.

And IMHO, that posting did not have any merits deserving to be in oracle.misc
ed Received on Tue Mar 02 2004 - 13:45:00 CST