Re: notifying particular thread to wake up.

On Sep 30, 7:54 pm, Arne Vajhøj <a...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Links to non-free software or information should be clearly marked as
such in the newsgroup postings, and good free alternatives should be
mentioned as well so that people may make an informed choice, and so
that people that aren't Americans with credit cards and decent amounts
of wealth can actually get some use at all out of your post.

Why ?

That has never been the usenet standard !

Sure it has. It's bait and switch to imply that people can get instant
and free gratification by clicking a link which turns out to only be
to a stupid and disappointing ad or paywall. That's dishonest as well
as rude. If it's information or software that you're linking to, you
should state up-front if it's not free. That includes if there's a
registerwall or anything like that; whether you pay in money or in
being spammed or whatever, it's still not really free in that case.

Even students with little money may find such links useful.

Doubtful. It's very likely they will find Sun's free online materials
and other free online materials vastly more useful, particularly on
their budget.

Universities has libraries.

Have. And I don't see any relevance here. The link to some Amazon
sales page is obviously of no help to a student in acquiring the book
from any other source than Amazon. If they wanted the book from their
university library they'd have to go there and search, same as they
would have *without* the ever-so-helpful post under discussion here.

When the students graduate and get a job they may want the book.

When the students graduate and get a job they will probably want to
have a less stupid uniform to wear while flipping burgers -- the
career that most students can look forward to continuing even after
getting a CS degree these days, no thanks to the dot-bomb and other
issues with the western economy these days. :P

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