Re: "Test Driving Linux" Released by O'Reilly

From: Bill Vermillion (bv_at_wjv.com)
Date: 05/24/05 

Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:25:01 GMT

In article <02ea01c55fbc$a62af290$6b00000a@venti>,
Brian K. White <brian@aljex.com> wrote:

>OK I hate to be a party pooper but think I'm kinda tired of the
>ads if they are going to be this frequent.

>I don't mind, actually I appreciate, the occasional advertizement
>showing up here if the product is on topic and not otherwise well
>known, or _infrequent_ informative updates about products even if
>they are well known as long as they are topical.

>While many of the O'Reilly books are topical here, and these ads
>could be called informative updates, they are apparently not
>going to be infrequent and I think everyone knows for a long time
>by now that the O'Reilly books exist, where to find them, that
>new ones are always coming out, and what their average usefulness
>is.

All the O'Reilly ads I see are in comp.unix.sco.announce.

Bill 

-- 
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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