Can you please forward me that email? (chris@codeproject.com) We saw this issue years and years and years ago and it was a mail server issue. I'm hoping it's just a bad template on our end this time. cheers Chris Maunder

Thanks for passing on that comment, Richard. It's a shame the comment thread wasn't cc'ed to me. It's hard to learn new things when you're excluded from a discussion. It would've been helpful if I'd gotten some sort of canned message about why my post disappeared and how it could become acceptable. Instead, it just went into a black hole. It seems the key difference between an ad and an acceptable press release is whether it's written in 2nd person or 3rd person. From the press release right below mine: "This product also makes an excellent alternative for those professionals that work in their own home-offices." Changing "their own home-office" to "your own home-office" would make it an advertisement. One of the oddest things is that my post is now a zombie. It says "Message Removed" and I can't delete the entry. Makes me wonder why the entry wasn't simply removed. Ed

Thanks for freeing it. I did a 2nd post after the 1st because there was no immediate feedback on what happened. I emailed webmaster and asked them to delete one and they must have done so.

I think your reasoning is excellent, Ed. You just ran into a web surfer who's too lazy to compile the project himself, or too inept, or just looking for freeware with no intention of learning anything or doing any work. Move along, nothing to see here, lad. And nothing to be concerned about on your end. Carry on! :) Will Rogers never met me.

RafagaX wrote: Perhaps if you can turn your backend into a plugin for the aforementioned systems, you may sell it for them, then offer a fully integrated premium solution with your own e-shop system. That's a very good idea, and one I hadn't considered. I'll look into it. That would certainly be a quick way to gain entry to the market. Thanks, Ed

i agree

Ed, there is no getting away from the fact that you are going to have to apply for Soapbox 1.0 membership [^], where the adults have troll-free adult conversations.

Was that you Pot, bitching about the hostility in here? Or was that Kettle. "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock." - Mark Twain "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx

Ed Gadziemski wrote: He's the president. This is a democracy. He won the election. Ah yes, the President as strongman theory - you've been studying with Stan, I see. Personally, I prefer Presidents who are more interested in the citizens of this nation than helping out Mexico and China. Though apparently both Bush and Obama don't agree with me. Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin

Ed Gadziemski wrote: I forget your last name; it's been a while You are lying through your teeth. It has never been in my profile and has been revealed to only one person on this board, via email, and that not "a while ago," but quite recently. Besides, if you did know my name you would have found more than a dozen hits on military.com. I thought better of you than this kind of b.s reveals about your character. Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin

Synaptrik wrote: Occasionally his point is valid, yet he still gets ridiculed. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. :suss: "Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it." -- P.J. O'Rourke I'm a proud denizen of the Real Soapbox[^] ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES!!!

Synaptrik wrote: I'm arguing LAW. We are either a nation of laws or we aren't. I'm willing to accept either course personally. Its a wonder that you get so worked up without comprehending what is being said to you. Stop foaming and comprehend. I'm not the one with a comprehension problem. You want to claim that you are merely following some kind of American tradition which our nation has always adhered to. Yet, you blithfully ignore that the real tradition endangered here is the one that has always given our leaders a huge amount of latitude in how they have chosen to defend the country. Including things that have been measurably far worse than anything Bush did, even if the very worse charges against him are absolutely true. You are doing that only because of who Bush is and what he represents. You are not some kind of paragon of American virtue regardless of how hard you try to portray yourself that way, you're just another liberal demonizing the political opposition. Not trying to help the country, but merely your own political agenda. Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

Rob Graham wrote: Then you could be upside-down to Uncle too. Most wage-earners are for the first 5 months anyway. Shortly, I suspect that'll be 6 or 7 months. . . Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin

Brady Kelly wrote: Don't you only pay tax on profit? I'm organized as an LLC. I deduct expenses such as employee wages, cost of goods, advertising, etc. from gross income to reach distributable income. I also pay the employer's portion of social security and medicare for each employee as well as unemployment tax for each employee. The LLC itself pays no tax. Instead, tax is assessed on my personal income. Corporations are taxed differently (C type, that is). They pay tax on net income (profit).

Ouch. You truly have my sympathy. Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface

you need to tell us what you are doing over there every day. It' cold on the main land. :)