On Wednesday 29 Dec 2010 15:11:22 jeff pang wrote: > 2010/12/29 Erez Schatz <moonb...@gmail.com>: > > Since most of your posts are related to directing people to your site, > > I'd say we are about even. In more tightly-moderated lists you'd be > > banned for spamming. > > I agree with this point. > Directing everyone to a personal site is always considered rude. >
Well, just for the record, I normally refer people asking for help here to http://perl-begin.org/ which is not my personal web-site (the latter being the one mentioned in the signature). Moreover, I normally refer people to certain parts of Perl-Begin where they can find more information to what they asked about or need help with and not to the front page of this. Furthermore, I aim http://perl-begin.org/ to be a community first-stop for learning about Perl. While, since its inception, I've done most of the work on it myself, I received some notable contributions from other people whom I credit at http://perl-begin.org/contribute/list/ , the source code for the site is in a publicly accessible version control repository, and the licence for the content is the open-content/free-content Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-by), which allows for nearly unlimited reuse. Everyone is welcome to contribute to it by sending comments, corrections or patches. As far as Perl beginner portals go, I feel it is much more communal than http://learn.perl.org/ whose development model is tightly controlled and not open, which has suffered from a lot of neglect since its inception (while perl-begin.org has constantly been developed and enhanced), whose licence is the highly restrictive CC-by-nc-nd licence, and which is far less comprehensive. Nevertheless, it appears at the list signature of every message to this E-mail and I don't see people complaining about it being "spam". Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Original Riddles - http://www.shlomifish.org/puzzles/ Chuck Norris can make the statement "This statement is false" a true one. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
