"Granny Spitz via AccessMonster.com" <u26473@uwewrote in message
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RoyVidar wrote:
>I'm perhaps interpreting the charter of this NG differently, but I
thought that "You may answer a question with a link to a commercial
site which pertains to the question." meant that you could do that.
Some people interpret it more loosely and some people interpret it
more strictly.
Why interpret at all - posting a link to a commercial site which
pertains to the question is explicitly allowed in this NG.
What you do is of course the opposite of what you say - by stating
"Glad I have a tool that takes care of that stuff for me before it
creates an Access 2000 MDE from Access 2003, so I don't have to worry
about any of that."
you are effectively advertising this product, and doing a darn good job
at it. For a different approach, look at those who follow the charter
and just post a link - here are a couple of samples (watch for
linebreaks in the links)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....276896d3bb3c52 http://groups.google.com/group/comp....ef795f6edc4c82 http://groups.google.com/group/comp....a337a898a52e00 http://groups.google.com/group/comp....ff5b2c1c64fd8b
I read the arguments and obscenities in posts in the
past from both sides.
Would that be after someone has followed the NG charter and posted a
link to a commercial site which pertains to the question?
I don't want to run afoul of anybody's rules
of conduct, so I try not to post links to commercial sites even if
the product is exactly what I think the poster needs, because I don't
want anybody to think I'm their salesman.
When advertising like you do, and then refuse to do the one thing which
is explicitly allowed in this NG (giving the incorrect excuse that
posting links to commercial sites aren't allowed in this NG), what
impression do you think you give?
There aren't many
commercial site links in people's sig lines in the Access newsgroups,
so if you look I'm sure you'll find all the commerical products in a
few minutes, at least I did.
Where does the sigs come into the equotation?
In the spirit of the newsgroups we're offering help, not sales.
Sure, let us all start writing order/invoice systems for small
businesses, video rental systems, small business inventories... from
scratch again, so we can do our utmost to avoid sales and anyone
earning money, eh? Face it, for some challenges posted here,
recommending a commercial solution is a better alternative than
reinventing the wheel... I wouldn't be surprised if that's why the
charter explicitly allows posting links to commercial sites which
pertains to the question.
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Roy-Vidar