I think of the Linux community, as a whole, to be a family.
I also think that there is place for criticism in this family but
it should always be constructive criticism in a manner that will
do some good.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aviram Jenik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:25 PM
> To: Linux-IL mailing list
> Subject: Re: Whatsup *** SELF-PROMOTION *** :)
>
>
> This is not against Guy personally, but a message for the
> flamers who spend
> their time wining on other people's off-topic posts instead of doing
> constructive things to promote Linux or help others.
>
> I think dittigas's first post was poorly constructed. Posting
> a URL with very
> little information is not helpful. However, I do not think
> the post itself
> was bad.
>
> I certainly can't find anything wrong with the second post,
> which had the
> obvious subject "whatsup self promotion". It is quite
> self-evident what the
> email body is; so if that doesn't interest you, hit the
> 'delete' button.
>
> I don't see a reason to ban whatsup pointers from this list,
> just like there
> are occasional pointers to ynet, slashdot, and other places.
> Occasionally
> there are issues that involve the community, and Linux-IL is
> a main part of
> the community IMO. I would want to see those discussed here,
> or at least I'd
> like to see a "heads-up" about those issues when those arise.
>
> I know my post doesn't contribute to the SNR. The only reason
> I posted it is
> to raise a troubling issue - in any Linux-related activity that gets
> organized here, there seems to be dozens of objections, and
> plenty of people
> that point out what is wrong, and what should be done
> instead. However, there
> are only few people who actually *do* something.
>
> --
> "It was only a one liner. A semi-illiterate chipmunk could've written
> it. " -- MBY about his 2.5.73 kernel patch in tpam_queues.c
>
> - Aviram
>
>
> On Wednesday 30 July 2003 21:26, Guy Cohen wrote:
> > Please stop sending SPAM to the list...
> >
> > See values:
> > 1. self-promotion
> > 2. no real name behind the email
> > 3. got nothing to do with the lists topic
> > 4. plain old pain in the neck.
> >
> > Go away or learn to behave.
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 03:05:41PM +0200, dittigas wrote:
> > > If to build on the momentum, sort of speak, would actually like to
> > > invite people to contribute to Whatsup! As a reminder, whatsup is
> > > working closely with other communities like the Pinguin
> and the Makor
> > > and has made itself availble to it for news and announcments.
> > >
> > > Even though some of you allready contribute, I would like
> to indicate
> > > that it would be nice to see more people doing so, and we will
> > > appriciate receiving any information you may concider
> relevant. Weather
> > > an interesting story, a project you are involved with, a
> success story
> > > (especially local, desperatly needed) just post.
> > >
> > > Like stated, we seriously lack on this front. It is very
> difficult to
> > > find any leads or get an idea of where Israel is
> postioned when talking
> > > about the use of FLOSS rather than the developers community.
> > >
> > > One thing I would like to have available is a portfolio
> of "success
> > > stories" to be used by anyone who may need refrences. If
> your company is
> > > working with Linux and you can share this information
> with the rest of
> > > us, that would be excelent.
> > >
> > > You may either post it yourself on Whatsup or send me or
> any of the
> > > other guys an e-mail with details, in hebrew or in
> english and we'll
> > > take care of the rest.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > >
> > >
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