Re: RDS announcement

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RDS announcement
Date: 2015-03-29 03:17:50
Message-ID: 55176EDE.5010809@gmx.net
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On 3/18/15 5:03 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> What constitutes an advertisement?
>
> The primary test here is whether the information provided would be of
> some use even to people who have no interest in the commercial product
> mentioned. Consider what your entry would look like if all references to
> the product were removed. If there's no useful PostgreSQL content left
> after doing that, that post is an ad.
>
> While it isn't an ad, when you remove the reference to the product,
> there isn't anything left. I think a post would also fail on the
> "relevant to the PostgreSQL community".

I think this just shows that that definition of advertisement is flawed.
Under those rules, even a product recall would be an advertisement.

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