Author: Alvaro Polo
Date: 03:45:45 01/30/00
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On January 30, 2000 at 01:25:31, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On January 29, 2000 at 21:40:53, James T. Walker wrote: > >>The only thing I think you did wrong was taking too long to delete that garbage! >> Commercial advertising here is not allowed and Anti-Commercials should also not >>be allowed. If there is a real problem with a program, then discussing it here >>to put out the word should be OK but to just shoot it down with no real >>substance or concrete complaint should be zapped immediately. I'm glad you did. > >As far as I know this place isn't violently anti-commercial. The charter says >"flagrant commercial exhortations". That's a pretty high standard in my >opinion. > >In any case I don't think this applies. If your reason was the only reason not >to allow people to do this stuff, then it would be OK to do it to Crafty, and >it's shouldn't be. > >bruce Perhaps I am missing something, but I believe that this (ie. "Don't buy Crafty, it sucks!") couldn't be done to Crafty since Crafty cannot be bought. Anti-commercial posts are commercial posts because they try to modify the natural amount of sales of a program, for the upper or for the lower side, the direction just being a detail. Alvaro
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