On 11/10/02 10:16 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > Which made me thing - is there a section on "books we wrote" on the > london.pm site to give blatant free advertising plugs? [No] > > Would it be a good idea? Not sure. Because then we'd have everyone > (even Matt Wright?) subscribing to london.pm just to get their link. > And not all books are equal. I don't think we'd want to end up with > the same page promoting Data munging with perl, Object oriented perl, > Learning perl and some masterpiece by someone allergic to use strict;
It could be a long, dark, slippery slope, but I think that it's possible to distinguish between "involved" perl mongers such as Dave, and "freebie-seeking hangers on", who don't even come to a meeting. There *is* a problem of perceived cliquishness, of course, but... I dunno. It would be a nice section of the site to have, and avoiding doing it because we'll be obliged to include every screed turned out by every mailing list member seems... like a very odd version of political correctness. Mileages may vary.
