Dave,
Your request to David found its way to my desk and I gave the green light.
Keep in mind, you are effectively asking if it is okay to advertise for a
java forum inside of our java forums. It's like advertising for target inside of a walmart.
I like to think that JavaRanch/CodeRanch is more about knowledge, programming and community than about building an empire/website whatever. So if there is a better resource out there, then I definitely want folks to know about it.
However ... keep in mind that we get big gobs of spam every day. And there are a lot of folks that are up to no good and we are very vigilant about that.
I think that most forums/websites would delete that sort of thing. So I can understand Gregg's position on this. While I am inclined to move the thread back, the part about you feeling cheesed off, cheeses me off. Which makes me dis-inclined to move it back. And, while I don't agree with Gregg's choice on this one occasion, I think Gregg makes lots and lots of good choices, so my inclination is to blindly support him.
So now I'm leaning against moving it back.
I'll make a deal with you. If you edit your post to mellow it out .... downgrade from cheesed off, to ... say ... confused, I'll move the thread.
I feel it is important to say that I checked around and the primary thing in your favor with this is that you have lots of posts and some folks on the staff have reported that they think you're a generally decent guy. I say this because I don't want somebody spamming my forums later with their stuff and pointing to this post saying "you said it was okay for Dave, so therefore ...." --- so I want to continue to give myself license to delete similar stuff in the future willy nilly. For whatever reason I make up, or for no reason at all!
We good?