Op 3/4/10 9:14 PM, Daniel Brown schreef: > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 14:59, mrfroasty <mrfroasty@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Looks expensive, definately NO > > Then do not reply. It was an offer to the community at large, not > just you and the other top-poster. ;-P > quite. and it's not like Zend send such offers to the list everyday, in fact I don't think I've seen anything from them here before at all. this list is not moderated, as such we're liable to receive stuff now and again that we're not personally interested in ... just ignore it. to those that argue it's expensive - quality training is, that's the nature of the business and the subject matter we deal with. to those that argue that it's spam, I would disagree - the 'ad' is directly relevant to php developers, the sender's employer is reputable, the recipients are all members of an unmoderated mailing list that is generally (pun intended) known to be very flexible and lax with regard to the exceptability of posts and lastly the actual sender is a traceable person with a working email address. everything pretty much above board as far as I'm concerned. I would suggest that Zend don't send such 'ad's too often purely because that might offend the very people they are trying to reach, additionally they might consider that when they do send things like this to also include links/etc to relevant/new resource that are freely available ... I'd personally wouldn't mind an occasional email pointing out some new article about, for instance, 'Best Practices' which also includes info about upcoming courses ... a bit of give and take in that vein might garner a more positive response, in general, from members of this list. ... your thoughts on a post card ;-) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
