D marketplace

[Walter Bright]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
> news:hag41h$21l1$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> I'm considering setting up another D newsgroup called D.marketplace. In 
>> it, you can essentially post advertisements for your D products, hang out 
>> a shingle offering your D consulting services, post want ads for D 
>> programmers, anything business oriented that's related to D.
>>
>> Is this something needed?
> 
> Isn't that what basically what D.announcements is? 

There's some overlap, but I think they serve entirely different 
purposes. D.announce is for any announcements of interest to D 
programmers, D.marketplace is for commercial things - products and 
services to buy and sell. Think of it like the 'classified' section of 
the newspaper.