Re: MARKED FOR POOP Re: PEAR DB 1.6.0 has been released ED PROCHAK

#1 (**permalink**) 04-19-2008, 09:35 PM

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From: "SkidMark" <pooppatrol@internetpoop.org>
To: <informix-list@iiug.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 4:30 AM
Subject: MARKED FOR POOP Re: PEAR DB 1.6.0 has been released ED PROCHAK

> MARKED FOR POOP
>
> Ed,
>
> We had no choice but to mark your post for poop. There was just
> too much soil to avoid it, and, well, we had no choice. As we
> indicated to Daniel Morgan, you can appeal our decision after
> 30 days. Just get us that pic of you and your clean diaper.
>
> Some of the things we found in your soil sample:
> * Complete misunderstandings of what PEAR is
> * Statements that had no point or were completely off-track
> * Statements that indicated a possible link to mental health issues
> such as either low IQ or mental retardation
> * Statements filled with inaccuracies
>
> Please take a moment to review your postings and resubmit them
> without the errors and we think you'll get out of the poop
> quickly.
>
> -IPP-
>
> "Ed prochak" <ed.prochak@magicinterface.com> wrote in message
news:4b5394b2.0402271156.6c2ddec7@posting.google.c om...
> > Galen Boyer <galenboyer@hotpop.com> wrote in message
news:<uwu69g7c4.fsf@standardandpoors.com>...
> > > On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, damorgan@x.washington.edu wrote:
> > >
> > > > All SPAM is bad spam. I don't care if you are giving it away
> > > > for free. I don't care if you personally show up, install it,
> > > > configure it train on it, and then give me a check for $50: It
> > > > is still spam.
> > >
> > > I'm on the fence on this one. What is different from what this
> > > guy posted and what Jonathan Lewis posts every month?
> >
> > Let's see,
> > Jonathan posted only in one group at a time (I did not find any
> > multiposts.)
> > His Ads were ORACLE related and posted in ORACLE groups
> >
> > This guy posted in multiple discussion groups, none related to his
> > product announcement.
> > None of the groups were .announce, .forsale or .marketplace.
> >
> > >
> > > Sure, Jonathan is a great contributor, and well respected, but he
> > > is "advertising" a site. Is it so different, or is every
> > > posting's "Spam rating" to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.
> > > I would never call Jonathan's postings spam, but I also have a
> > > hard time truly distinquishing that from the original posting in
> > > this thread.
> > >
> > Now I think we did discuss Jonathan's posts and the preferred place
> > for them is still the marketplace group. But his posts in the other
> > ORACLE groups have been tolerated since he does CONTRIBUTE to those
> > groups. Has the OP,
> > Analysis&Solutions (info@analysisandsolutions.com) contributed
> > anything here?
> >
> > Well a google search in c.d.oracle.* shows only 4 posts by that email,
> > one is the original PEAR advert, the other three were all Questions
> > about date formatting. So I conclude that he contributes NOTHING to
> > comp.databases.oracle.*
> >
> > What he contributes to open source movement is a separate issue.
> >
> > And I think I am consistent here. I would chatise the Pope if he
> > posted his newest Encyclical in the oracle group, because it would be
> > off topic, even if the tile of the encyclical was something like "St.
> > John: ORACLE of the New testament".
> >
> > > About a year ago, I had embarked on building an open source Oracle
> > > extension to Emacs to allow for dynamic query building within
> > > Emacs by interacting with metadata from Oracle. I never finished
> > > it, but had I actually published it to the Open source community,
> > > I certainly would have let people in this group know. Would I
> > > have been chastised for that?
> >
> > Galen, you are also well respected in these groups. But I think you
> > answered your own question. It would have been an ORACLE related
> > product. Judging from you past posts, I would expect that, even if you
> > posted an advert in all the oracle groups, you would NOT post it in
> > c.d.db2 or c.d.postgresql
> > I think you are too intelligent to do that.
> >
> > So the view I follow can be summarized as
> > newsgroups are not anything-goes chat rooms.
> > newsgroups have individual cultures
> > newsgroups ar TOPIC related, so not all messages are welcomed
> >
> > hth,
> > ed
>
>
>
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