From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b4dc83f52d262640 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b4dc83f52d262640 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b4dc83f52d262640 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: The outstanding Eiffel compiler now available Date: 1998/10/15 Message-ID: <1998Oct15.123612.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 401402328 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eisner.decus.org References: <8pj207.5be.ln@mail> <705062$ooo$1@mdnews.btv.ibm.com> X-Trace: news.decus.org 908469376 4391 KILGALLEN [192.67.173.2] Organization: LJK Software Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1998-10-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <705062$ooo$1@mdnews.btv.ibm.com>, David N. Smith 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