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>>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Hilgeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jonathan> The harm doesn't come from you offering something beneficial to the MySQL Jonathan> community. It comes when you abuse the privileges of being on this list and Jonathan> send spam. While there may not be anything in stone that says not to send Jonathan> commercial software advertisements, you should know better. The only thing Jonathan> that keeps spam from filling up the mailing lists is a slight sense of Jonathan> ethical marketing behavior, and some people don't have that. <cough, cough> <cut> Jonathan, this is as much as my fault as Cathy's. Cathy has asked me previously if it's ok for them to send out one email about Lasso on this email list. I said, that as they are using a legitimate version of MySQL they could do this once to inform the people on the list of their product. We have said ok to things like this a couple of times before to companies that we work with. I am personally against spam, but in some case a one-time directed email to a target group where many could find the product usable can be considered 'ok' as long as things doesn't go out of proportions. I personally don't think that has happened yet. Hope you understand our proportions: We don't want users on this list to feel that they get 'spamed', but once in a while there is a product that we thing is interesting enough for many of our users and we think everyone would benefit if they got some information about this. We plan in the near future to start sending out business news with a short description of new exiting products that works with MySQL. When we get this done, emails like the current one shouldn't be a problem anymore. Regards, Monty -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Mr. Michael Widenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ MySQL AB, CTO /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ Helsinki, Finland <___/ www.mysql.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
