On Sep 5, 2008, at 10:57, chromatic wrote:
Full credit (and many thanks) to David Golden and others who are
moving away
from this model, but if I'm an ass for saying "You know, that has a
lot in
common with spam" and "CPAN-related services with good intentions
should
carefully consider the effects of their actions on their
constituents", then
I'm proudly an ass as well.
I think that such diplomatic descriptions are useful, and don't make
you an ass. But simply calling it "spam" is not very useful. There is
an underlying reason one says its spam or spam-like, and that's the
important thing.
Best,
David
