[plug] Press Release

[Earnshaw, Mike]

List,

Coming to Richard's defence. His contributions to Linux and mailing
lists in general is beyond calculation in my opinion, just like lots of
other people who subscribe to lists. I personally do not have a problem
with his original e-mail, it was harmless after all.

In the short time I have known Richard personally he has never tried to
push his "personal commercial" interests yet has always offered the hand
of experience to people in distress and at the most in opportune times!

Cut the guy some slack ;-)

0.02c

Mike



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian [mailto:christian at amnet.net.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 27 July 2000 10:28
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Press Release
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 10:45:23PM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> > Christian wrote:
> > > Is blatant
> > > self-promotion for no other purpose acceptable on this 
> list?  There are
> > > a lot of people with certain interests (some commercial, 
> some not) but
> > > it doesn't mean they seek to promote those interests at 
> every turn.
> > 
> > OK, so he's over the line for you, not for me. One plus, 
> one minus, one
> > probably minus but not actually comitting yet. How low a 
> score does he
> > need for a reprimand?
> 
> My count is: plus: 1, minus: 3, donkey voters: 2
> 
> If the acceptability of this sort of practice is uncertain 
> then perhaps
> it should be discussed and determined, either by the PLUG hierarchy or
> by the masses on this list?  For example, is promotion of a commercial
> enterprise on this list acceptable?  It's been done before by yourself
> and most people have accepted it because it was very on-topic 
> (countless
> newbies on the list looking for training so you, and others, 
> ran several
> for-profit training sessions).  Perhaps that's acceptable 
> only when it's
> something that a very sizable proportion of subscribers are likely to
> want?  It also made it more acceptable since you were already 
> well-known
> on the list.  What about semi-commercial activity like the 
> recent post?
> Promoting the activities of a company, even of those specific 
> activities
> are not necessarily for profit.  It seemed off-topic to me and it felt
> like spam.  What about promoting the non-profit activities of an
> individual?  I would say this might be acceptable if it was 
> relevant and
> on-topic (and rare).
> 
> What do others think?
>