Re: No Starch Press releases _The Debian System_ by Martin Krafft
On Thursday 15 September 2005 05:03 pm, Jules Dubois wrote:
> On Thursday 15 September 2005 13:58, Roberto C. Sanchez
> <roberto@familiasanchez.net>
>
> (<[🔎] 20050915195812.GB32613@miami.familiasanchez.net>) wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:29:41PM -0600, Jules Dubois wrote:
> >> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> >>
> >> Media contact: Patricia Witkin
> >> patricia@nostarch.com
> >> 415.863.9900 x303
> >>
> >> NEW BOOK EXPLAINS DEBIAN STRUCTURE AND PHILOSOPHY
> >>
> >> Insights into Debian project and operating system shed light on its
> >> growing appeal
> >
> > While appreciate the hard work that Martin has done on his book, and the
> > general interest about it on this list, I think that advertising it like
> > this goes against the Debian mailing list advertising policy [0].
>
> It was clearly an "advertisement" by the dictionary definition. OTOH, it's
> not spam as I posted exactly one copy here (and nowhere else). It doesn't
> seem to me to be a violation of Debian policy, which I've just read for the
> first time; if it is a violation, I apologize.
There are some people who just read this list to start arguing. Who has time
to waste arguing like this? Do you two have nothing better to do than start
some freaking "spam-nu uh" thread? If this is true, I have about a dozen OSS
projects I could use that energy for. Email me off-list and I'll let you know
the CVS/SVN logins.
Please cut this before it gets started.
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