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Open Wound wrote:
> Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1088688243.29508_at_yasure>...
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>>John Koller wrote: >> >>>>> I am pleased to announce that version 0.5 of VTD-XML -- a new, >>>>>non-extractive, Java-base XML processing API licensed under GPL >>>>>-- is now freely available on sourceforge.net. >>>>>Thanks, >>>>> >>>>>Jimmy Zhang >>>> >>>>You are promoting a commercial product in usenet groups in which >>>>such activities are explicitly forbidden. >>> >>> >>>How is this a commercial product? Just curious. >> >>Read the archives of these groups. 'Free' does not make something a >>non-product. Nor does it make it a non-promotion.
'Commerical' is irrelevant to it being spam. Must we carry on this nonsense discussion forever? Why is it everyone that has something they wish to promote can so easily find some excuse that exempts them from the rule everyone else somehow manages to abide by?
I don't give a d... if you pay people to use it ... it is still a promotion and belongs in c.d.o.marketplace.
-- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)Received on Sun Jul 04 2004 - 13:31:02 CDT