[NTLUG:Discuss] Press Release

[Steve Baker]

m1l0 wrote:
> 
> How is that not appropriate?

Well, there was a time when these sorts of announcements were pretty
earth-shattering events - some significant company actually using
Linux as a significant chunk of their mission-critical software was
an amazing thing.

But these days, it just isn't news anymore.

It's like posting messages to comp.languages.c to say "My company
decided to write all their software in C" - it's not precisely WRONG
to post it to the list but it gets kinda boring and irrellevent after
a while if enough people do it.

Are there a set of stated guidelines for posting to this list?  It's
not like most mailing lists where it's pretty obvious what's on or
off topic.  NTLUG discuss?  Discuss what?  Linux in North Texas?
Discuss the user group itself?  Just a place for NTLUG members to
discuss anything?   It's really not clear what the scope is.

It's rather hard on people to tell them off for that kind of post...
but I agree that if we all posted every use of Linux in every
company for whom we work, there would probably be a hundred of
these a month and it would get *really* objectionable.

> > >>>>> "Allen" == Allen Flick <allenflick at home.com> writes:
> >
> >     Allen> <http://www.intervoice-brite.com/press/2000/p0500.html>
> >
> >     Allen> Check out the above URL.  It's a press release from where I
> >     Allen> work.
> >
> > Uh, that's not really appropriate for this list.
> >
> > <Kendall/>

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