Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!husc6!bu-cs!tower From: tower@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Don't advertise it here Message-ID: <25049@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 22 Sep 88 22:54:49 GMT References: <8809161526.AA00248@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> <8210@alice.UUCP> Reply-To: tower@bu-it.bu.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) Followup-To: comp.lang.c++ Organization: Distributed Systems Group, Boston University, 111 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA +1 (617) 353-2780 Lines: 46 X-Home: 36 Porter Street, Somerville, MA 02143, USA +1 (617) 623-7739 X-UUCP-Path: ..!harvard!bu-cs!tower In article <8210@alice.UUCP> bs@alice.UUCP (Bjarne Stroustrup) writes: |rms at WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman) writes: | | > Please don't use GNU mailing lists to discuss, advertise or ask about | > proprietary software. | > | > We set up this list for discussion of the GNU C++ compiler. Using our | > list to promote unfree software is working directly to interfere with | > the GNU project--insulting, at the least. So take those discussions | > someplace else. | |Cersorship raises its ugly head. A few facts: rms posted the above on the Internet mailing list info-g++ which is gated one-way into comp.lang.c++ It was in response to an ad mailed to info-g++, NOT any of the postings here on comp.lang.c++. The charter of info-g++ states it's restricted to the discussion of G++ and GDB+. The one way gating was approved after a vote conducted a while back on this newsgroup. Opinion: I think the occasional inappropriate message from info-g++ is a small cost for comp.lang.c++ readers to pay for all the valuable messages. Disclaimer: I'm an active GNUer. Hopefully: 'nuff said. enjoy -len PS: info-g++ is gated both ways with the newsgroup gnu.g++. PPS: information about the GNU Project is available from: gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu or Free Software Foundation 675 Mass. Avenue Cambridge, MA 04139