TDPL a bad idea?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"John D" <jdean at googling.com> wrote in message 
news:hk381s$1es1$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Did anyone watch Shark Tank on TV this week? Captain Ice Cream was 
> rejected by all of the sharks and sent packing because he wanted to sell a 
> franchise that wasn't. One of the sharks said to him something along the 
> lines of, "a franchise offering is a package deal for a product that is a 
> well-oiled machine... all the kinks worked out". Or was it the Legal 
> Grind, coffee shop lawyering, franchise that they said that to? Of the 
> Legal Grind, the sharks said: so you've been doing this for umpteen years 
> and haven't made any real money and now you want to offer a franchise?
>
> Why a killing of trees for a manual that changes daily and can be on the 
> internet? What is the point of TDPL? To make money? I don't see any value 
> in a set of pages that are a manual for a constantly changing and 
> unestablished computer programming language. Can't yaz save the trees and 
> offer it for sale on the web to anyone who wants to pay for it? It's easy 
> to setup a PayPal website (though I think D is far from that if ever). I 
> don't see this thing selling in bookstores. A hard copy of an already 
> obsolete specification? If it's just charitable contribution from long 
> time afficionados, why not just .org and ask for contributions and not 
> kill trees?
>
> "TDPL: we want money"? Msg me when it is "TDPL: the well-oiled machine". 
> (Note I didn't say "the well-oiled MONEY machine).
>

Ordinarily I wouldn't think much of this, but considering some of this guy's 
most recent postings over in "Google's Go", I'd say it's about time to 
consider instituting a NG ban system. We were (maybe) able to chase away 
superdan, but who knows how persistent other such trolls like this one will 
prove to be.