Except for the one last month, I haven't seen any of his posts, or I probably would have said something.
I still say this is a support forum, not a marketing list. Product announcements that are not in response to a question or problem should be taken elsewhere, IMO. Regarding the flack I've seen about people posting objections to this: I would agree that we shouldn't go overboard, but without posts to let everyone know we don't think the post was appropriate, we can't determine what guidelines to follow. Without those guidelines, potential posters don't know what to do when considering a post such as this. Which begs the question...what are the official guidelines for posting to the list? I know IMail posted something on this sometime in the past year. We can let that settle it once and for all. Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 7:18 AM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] IPlus Info Browser v4.2 Released > > This list is not your personal marketing venue. Please stop spamming > us with your unsolicited product announcements. >I agree. I think if it continues we should all email ipswitch to have him >removed from the list. > >Too bad makelovenot spam is shut down we could submit ><http://www.marketware.com>www.marketware.com to them!!?? Let me just put my two cents worth in here. I've gone through my IMail archives, and found that this person has posted about this product an average of about once every 3 months. That doesn't seem unreasonable to me. Further, it doesn't seem unreasonably to the people on this list! What happened? IMail is going downhill. That's the problem. Of his previous posts since 2001, there was only one complaint (a simple "Is this a sales pitch?" response), until last month's post. I do feel that the complaints about that one were justified, it came out 2 weeks after a previous announcement, and was only used to generate sales (with "SAVE $20" in the subject). However, I'm guessing both the reason for that post and the unusual volume of complaints were due to IMail (the market disappearing, and people being upset at the new direction of IMail). This time, however, the post was nearly identical to many previous posts, that nobody had complained about. So yes, complaining about the post last month was OK. But I just can't see why people are so upset about this one, when they weren't in the past. -Scott --- Declude JunkMail: The advanced anti-spam solution for IMail mailservers since 2000. Declude Virus: Ultra reliable virus detection and the leader in mailserver vulnerability detection. Find out what you've been missing: Ask for a free 30-day evaluation. ---- This outgoing message is guaranteed to be authentic by Message Level users. Guarantee the authenticity of your email @ http://www.messagelevel.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
