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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f7ba82000cd2b524 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Pat Rogers" Subject: Re: adverts on c.l.a Date: 1999/03/01 Message-ID: <7beoiv$pjg$1@remarQ.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 450057346 References: <7be6nm$4b9$1@remarQ.com> <7beilk$q5a$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@remarQ.com X-Trace: 920315295 Y6JRGRJUHDE2FC640C usenet80.supernews.com Organization: Software Arts & Sciences Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote in message <7beilk$q5a$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>... >In article <7be6nm$4b9$1@remarQ.com>, > "Pat Rogers" wrote: >> Lately there have been a few advertisements for services >> posted to comp.lang.ada. What do people think of these? >> Are the appropriate? > >My own feeling is that it is fine to have brief commercial >announcements about products or services. They should be >informational and brief. But for example, if a vendor has >a new version of an Ada compiler, or someone is teaching >Ada 95 courses or trying to recruit for an Ada job, that >seems fine to me. It is not as though we are overwhelmed >by such commercial messages. > >(we might be more overwhelmed by responses to this post, >which comes perilously close to being a troll :-) :-) No no, I assure you the question was posted in good faith. :-) The advert that prompted this was one offering information about up-coming training in the language. I have never felt comfortable advertising here on c.l.a. and wondered how people felt about it. Note that I'm not saying anybody has crossed any kind of line -- that's post in response to the one that prompted my question -- I just wanted to know how readers felt about it.