From: Wu Y. <ad...@ne...> - 2004-06-21 03:17:17
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Thanks for all the people speaking on this thread, no matter which policy you favour better. Thanks for the occasional encouragements sparkling your comments (which I will not name one by one, but believe me I will remember obligedly). There are always dilemmas facing such problems. I have some code, which I tuned specially for public reuse. If I do not advertise in some way, no one knows them and they will be valueless (alas, so many projects at Sourceforge have very little activity: after weeks of 0% activity, the total of about only 100 page views make nvwa rank at 74%; i.e. 74% of all Sourceforge projects have lower page views per week). If I do ... many people will not like it, and, yes, what if everyone acts like me! --- But I have to risk the objections of others if I want my voice heard. It is better to do some good with a bad name than to stay in complete silence and oblivion :-). If I am as famous and capable as Andrei Alexandrescu, I can of course easily find better ways than the "shameless ad" (how about a book, uh?), but sadly I am not. I hate spam very much. But I am often harmed by anti-spam mechanisms as well as spam. Anti-spam mechanisms caused a big number of troubles for communication, and generally people supporting such mechanisms will see all your trouble having nothing to do with them but only spam-makers. In my eyes it is not a practical nor problem-solving way. Of course one can say that ultimately it is spam that causes all these problems. This I confess, but I was trying to say how we could find better measures. In small communities like the MinGW users' list, laws are a means that cannot be afforded. It is meaningless to make detailed rules telling people what to do and what not to do. Maybe it is good metaphor to moderate the list like a chieftain instead of a judge. People are so different, and "projects" are so different: devising a way to mechanically rule out what is not allowed is problematic and can cause even more problems than solved. Having a principle, as what Danny states (no proprietay stuff, no offense, no fraud, etc.), is a better means (yes, I believe in Justice much better than Law). Earnie, what do you think? The chieftain's voice are being expected. :-) Best regards, Wu Yongwei |