Re: Building OSF/Motif Interfaces with Ada

[seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@uunet.uu.net (Michael Feldman)]

In article <1993May28.233328.8114@alsys.com> garym@alsys.com (Gary Morris @igni
te) writes:
>In <67937@mimsy.umd.edu> holmes@cs.umd.edu (Holmes S. Liao) writes:
>>The following is a posting on *comp.newprod*!  Thought that this might
>>interest some of the netters in THIS group.  I'm sending Alsys' announcement
>>without permission nor being awarded any commission. :-(
>
>That announcement was posted only to comp.newprod because commercial
>announcements are not permitted on the INFO-ADA mailing list (which is
>gatewayed to/from comp.lang.ada) according to AJPO guidelines. 

To my knowledge, neither AJPO nor AdaIC has any formal connection to 
INFO-ADA any more. Unless I am really off base, it is maintained by a 
volunteer, through a machine with no AJPO ties. In the days before
widespread use of netnews, INFO-ADA was indeed connected somehow to
AJPO. I believe now that AJPO has the same one vote each of us has
in determining what is appropriate for an unmoderated list.

The government, in things it sponsors (AdaIC, for example) feels the
need to be scrupulously careful about not seeming to play favorites.
Sometimes I think they go a little too far, but that's not my opinion.

My opinion is that announcements in reasonably good taste should be
welcome here, especially in view of the Ada industry's really dismal record
in informing the world about what they have to offer. Use common sense:
avoid blatant commercialism, hyberbolic claims, vaporware, etc. Such
things ought to be flamed mercilessly. But informational announcements,
preferably with useful pricing info, have a place here. Just my $0.02.

Am I right about the status of INFO-ADA?