Re: notifying particular thread to wake up.

bbound@xxxxxxxxx writes:

On Oct 10, 2:11 am, Lew <l...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The posting about which you complained was not a commercial posting.

Yes, it was. It was an ad, for crying out loud.

No, it was a reference to a book. As a service, it also contained
a link to a commercial site about that book. As a commercial site about
a book, it can indeed be seen as advertising (and will at least contain
advertising).

The point of the post in question was referring the reader to the
book, whether the link to the commerical site was there or not. As
such, that reference was not advertising, nor commercial.

Also, something is not a "commercial" posting *unless* the poster
expects to make profit from posting it, in any way or form. In this
case, the poster was unrelated to both the book and the linked web
page, and will not receive anything if anyone choses to buy the
book. He was just a happy customer sharing his experience.
His post was not commercial.

And the citations (plural) DO support the statement that was
currently being disputed, namely that commercial messages are
generally disliked on Usenet, *regardless* of whether you consider
that much earlier posting to be an example of such.

That is not the statement that is being disputed.
The statment that is being disputed is this:

| 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.

(from <news:1191097952.416204.13010@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- or <URL:http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/msg/18cdd48d0a2cc69e> for the newsreader impaired)

So far, no support for *that* claim has been posited, and none of the
other posters, all long-time newsgroup users, have ever heard of such
a rule or custom.

I.e., links to non-free software or information need not be marked as
such. There is definitly no requirement, or even expectation, that
posters of links to non-free software or information also post free
alternatives.

/L
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