From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,d8a2ac5ffb7cadfd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.megapath.net!news.megapath.net.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 14:18:55 -0600 From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <2004110323220875249%david@bottoncom> Subject: Re: AdaWorld and AdaPower Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 14:20:26 -0600 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.32.209.38 X-Trace: sv3-OsG3SnVENEDIXOBrHdDIvwdVWN/yTcvQXQhJ+UCpHHsADeJDLfcXlz8o3eYInoC4Z+ahEslf4whrhwg!lg8jpHCFreofVAzvq32AMISzlLYFvjs+OABXT0FcRtitJEimxtc55b0YGNoJiQKae/YZofLo2keU X-Complaints-To: abuse@megapath.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@megapath.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.20 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5993 Date: 2004-11-04T14:20:26-06:00 List-Id: "David Botton" wrote in message news:2004110323220875249%david@bottoncom... ... > - Product Announcements > > Perhaps a form that would output press releases and announcements for > Ada product releases, releases of new versions of code packages for > reuse, etc. It could automatically send out a message to CLA, a list > that people could join off of AdaWorld, and perhaps Team-Ada. I realize > that there is a list at Ada IC, but very sadly it is focused on > supporting ARA vendors and not the Ada community as a whole (although > certainly this does so on many levels, but not in the capacity at > hand). This description of what AdaIC does is not quite correct, so let me explain. The AdaIC announcement list is a *filtered* list of announcements. We try to run only things of wide-spread interest. I know I don't want to see press releases about some company you've never heard of choosing someone's product for a project, and I don't much care that version 3.1.8.7a of something is now available, either. The vendor should use their customer mailing lists to get that sort of information out. So we only run announcements of *new* Ada-related products, *major* conferences, and the like. Otherwise, the list would fill your mailbox with enough useless junk that you'd start thinking it was spam. Yes, we do give priority (and relax the filters a bit) for ARA vendor articles. But the real problem is that hardly anyone sends us announcements, and there is only so much that can be scavenged off of comp.lang.ada (and that leads heavily to non-commercial stuff -- we want a balance). I've probably missed a few announcements for new products/bindings/etc. here (thinking that they were just another release, or forgetting about them altogether); but it works better if you send them to us at webmaster@adaic.com. Another thing you should know is that the powers that be are planning a redesign/refresh of the AdaIC site with the intent of increasing its Ada Advocacy focus. I'm under orders to do as little as possible with the current site (especially not page corrections) in order to not duplicate effort (meaning that there won't be much new content beyond news and jobs for a while). I have no idea what the ultimate result of that redesign/refresh will be. Randy.