Ean Schuessler wrote: > On Monday 02 May 2005 10:55 pm, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Writing about ones work and how the own company or job evolves should > > be pretty ok. Even reporting *about* the new strategy of the company > > should be fine. However, I believe that simply quoting the company's > > press release is advertising (oh, and hence should be fined with > > $1,000, whoops *g*). We are not accepting this on the debian-* lists > > normally, so why should Debian honor this on Planet Debian? > > In the end, isn't this a blog aggregator? It isn't a mailing list and I don't > think the same rules apply. Effectively, Planet is trying to impose editorial > conditions on peoples *diaries*.
You named it. It contains diaries. It's an aggregator of of personal web logs, not an aggregator of (commercial) press releases. I feel that makes a big difference. > What are the conditions to be aggregated on Planet anyway? Be a Debianer? If > that's the only criteria then you should just tough it out through the > occasional press release. It only takes a day for something like that to roll > off. Be related to Debian and not write 100% crap or something? *shrug* Regards, Joey -- If nothing changes, everything will remain the same. -- Barne's Law -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]