Re: The outstanding Eiffel compiler now available

[kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <705062$ooo$1@mdnews.btv.ibm.com>, David N. Smith <dnsmith@watson.ibm.com> writes:
> In article <8pj207.5be.ln@mail> Halstenbach ACT GMBH, info@halstenbach.de
> writes:
>>Halstenbach is pleased to announce that version 3.0 of iss-base
>>is ready for beta testing.
> 
> I'm not sure what the 'rules' are on the other groups to which this
> advertisement was posted, but in c.l.s we generally frown on long
> advertising posts. It's been discussed at length in the past and the
> agreement, as I recall, was that short announcements of new things is OK,
> but they should point to where more info can be found rather than being
> sales brochures themselves. 

I am not disturbed at all by the tone, but I am plenty disturbed by
the fact that it has nothing to do with Ada.  The Internet newgroups
are not supposed to be a marketing playground where you figure that
folks interested in X, Y or Z might also be interested in W.  So far
as I can see, the subject announcement has nothing to do with those
other groups either.

Larry Kilgallen