Dear all Without involving in this dicussion deeply , i just want to mention my view . As a newbie in perl as well in this forum i found Shlomi Fish answers very useful and to the point. So i think blaming spamming short of thing is not right.
Thanks On 12/30/10, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> wrote: > 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/ > > > -- http://linuxinterviews.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
