Re: notifying particular thread to wake up.

nebulous99@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Oct 14, 6:11 am, Lasse Reichstein Nielsen <l...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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

What's your evidence for drawing this conclusion? Don't forget, Lew
and Andrew have made clear in other threads that people who post here
are considered to be affiliated with any sites they recommend until
proven otherwise.

That may be their opinion.

Not everyone (including me) share that.

But you are completely missing the point: there is a big difference in
unsolicited posts about site and referring to a site in a relevant
thread.

Even if I grant this, look at it this way: one guy goes up to a group
of people and asks for directions to the student loan office. The
first respondent raves about how awesome his new Mercedes-Benz is, and
mentions that it has satellite navigation and GPS, and gives
directions to the nearest Mercedes dealership.

Either you are not capable of analyzing the different scenarios
or you are trying to mislead us.

That analogy is bogus, because what was asked for and what was offered
was within the same topic.

A better analogy would be that someone asked for suggestions for
a car and someone replied by telling about how great a car a
Mercedes is.

Completely valid answer.

| 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

This is just so obvious that it really should go without saying.

Which would you prefer to receive if you were asking a question? A
link to where you can buy the answer, or just the damn answer??? Which
would you prefer in the way of product recommendations? A list of only
expensive options, or all of them?
Which would you prefer if you asked for a car dealership
recommendation? Only Rolls-Royce and Mercedes dealers, or the
assortment of Ford, Chrysler, Nissan, and so forth dealerships as
well?

Which would you expect a random other person to prefer? One not known
to be rich? Especially one who is probably a student and probably not
a trust fundie either, or he'd be asking some paid help or private
tutor instead of asking you?

You are babbling.

1) Because the original poster may prefer some solution it
does not imply that it is mandatory on usenet.

2) You have completely misunderstood the process of learning.
The original poster is much better off with a resource that
can help solve not only this problem but also the next ten
or hundrer problems within the domain.

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.

It isn't a rule or custom. It's just plain common sense, ***.

Have you tried counting how many people here that consider it common
sense and how many that does not consider it common sense ?

Common seems rather uncommon.

You are the only one who has this bizarre idea.

Arne
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