On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 06:47 am, Joel Goldstick wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Anita Goyal <anitagoyal...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> This course will help you to expertise the usage of Python in Data >> Science world. [...]
> Second post by this person. Both advertising classes for a fee. Is this > proper posting? I tend to think it is spam That's a tricky one. It's on-topic and reasonable honest (no obfuscated text, and although they don't explicitly state there is a fee it should be obvious that most courses that aren't labelled as free do cost money). It is advertising, but advertising isn't necessarily evil. And it's being sent to a public list, rather than spammed out to millions of individual email addresses. I think it's in a grey area, but so long as the sender doesn't abuse the privilege by flooding the group with advertising, it falls just slightly on the "acceptable" side of the line. But I wouldn't be surprised if some people disagree. I think it would be more acceptable to me if the sender labelled the subject line as "Advertising". -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
