[CMS-Forum] Starphire Technologies releases free 'Lite Edition' of SiteSage CMS application

[Adam Fields]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 02:52:50AM +0100, Brice Dunwoodie wrote:
> I hate to sounds a little jaded here, but given that this is in fact a
> public "channel" of information, with an identifiable character, we are
> bound to invite the spectrum of such information.
>
> I will speak for myself and say that I am here for both personal and
> business reasons, and will assume this applies to others.
> 
> Getting upset that people seek to use this channel for business reasons
> seems a tad unrealistic. Posting etiquette guidelines and developing a
> community that communicates in less generic linguistic patterns would be
> pleasurable; I'm sure for all of us.

There's a very big difference between having a discussion about a
problem and proferring a solution (which should still be done
off-list) and bombarding the list with PR release information that no
one asked for and most don't want.

Practically speaking, in order to have discussions that are useful to
any of us, the noise needs to be both discouraged and filtered
out. Useful as they may be under the right circumstances, product
announcements qualify as noise in this kind of arena. And it has to be
all or none. As was evident on Cam and Phil's cms-list, if you allow
anything like this at all, it quickly overruns the actual
discussion. Allow one, and everyone feels like they not only can, but
they have to.

That said, I disagree with Mike's assertion that you should not post
if you stand to benefit financially from it. We're all here for
business - I don't think I've ever heard of someone who does CMS as a
hobby, actually. But there's a long way to go between being a group of
professionals having a discussion and being a free spam channel for
products that may seem unique to the people responsible for selling
them, but which actually aren't all that inventive. And if they
are... then find a way to work them into the conversation and tell us
what you're doing that's interesting.



> I would vote for realism and aspirations of familiar communication.
> 
> Peace and CMS dude..

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				- Adam

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