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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:48:53 +0100
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[Posted & mailed]

matrobriva wrote in comp.lang.php:

> I have been working for about 3 months to a new project: Sharetext.
> 
> Sharetext is a portal that allows users to share their texts just like
> YouTube does with video.
> 
> I'd like to find collaborators to expand the code and improve it.
> The site is written in PHP and MySQL and is 100% free software.
> Whoever has intention to collaborate, may send a brief curriculum with
> his/her programming skills at this address: matrobriva@libero.it
> It is necessary good knowledge of PHP and MySQL. One of the most urgent
> work is to adapt the class ODT2XHTML, but there is much more to do.
> 
> The portal is located at http://[…].altervista.org

Neither your From header field value or signature (both of which are lacking 
a real name, so your credentials could be checked), the server you use to 
post to Usenet (which is notorious for all kinds of network abuse), or the 
domain name it is available at does instill confidence that this is anything 
but a scam, that the URL you posted is worth using and there is no 
potentially harmful content there.

Besides, your approach appears to be lacking proper research and a business 
case.  There are several such services established already, so why support 
or use yours instead?  I think there is enough text in your posting to raise 
suspicion, and too little information to convince anyone.  It is certainly 
insufficient to convince me, and I am a strong supporter of Free Software.  
But you go about this the wrong way.


PointedEars
-- 
> If you get a bunch of authors […] that state the same "best practices"
> in any programming language, then you can bet who is wrong or right...
Not with javascript. Nonsense propagates like wildfire in this field.
  -- Richard Cornford, comp.lang.javascript, 2011-11-14