That kind of thinking is a slippery slope. Advertising is advertising.
Period. And signatures of any kind take up space even when they are
on-point philosophy, ascii art or [fill-in-the-blank]. But then the
netiquette police have a lot to bitch about on this list. Very few posts
get trimmed and lookie here, we're top posting which is a real no-no.
Opinions are just opinions and hot air is hot air whether spoken or
written and there is waaaaay too much of that on this list. If only that
wasted energy could be diverted into actually improving Devuan . . .

golinux


On 2020-07-25 07:53, Gabe Stanton via Dng wrote:
> Steve, your response illuminated a distinction I had been making
> without even thinking about it.
>
> I'm just pontificating about advertisements now, so feel free to not
> read, but personally, Steve, your advertising your site and books has
> never bothered me in the slightest. It's on-topic and it's your
> personal efforts you're advertising. Corporate, paid-for ads are really
> the issue for me and I never thought it out that far before.
>
> I'll look at the rules for the list again but your response actually
> raised a very interesting and important distinction about ads.
>
>
> Gabe
>
> On Fri, 2020-07-24 at 11:28 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
>> Yes, I thought you were behaving like a jerk *UNTIL* I saw the volume
>> and content of the ad. The ad included something with American
>> politics, which is just sooooooo inappropriate for an international
>> technical list. Nothing jerky about objecting to *that particular*
>> ad.
>>
>> SteveT
>>