Hi All, Just to play devils advocate -
Adva also contacted me on the strength of my recent posts to the list - I felt the approach was relevant, with sufficient technical understanding of who we were and what products may be of interest to us. That led to a meeting where Adva came to see us and now we are arranging to get some demo kit to trial. So in a nutshell I am very happy Adva took the initiative to contact me with a product they deemed relevant. I think it's that relevance that is important. Regards... Ben Sent from my iPhone On 20 Aug 2013, at 17:50, Keith Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: > David, > > On 08/20/2013 12:03 PM, David Derrick wrote: >> Just had this from ADVA: >> >> On 20/08/2013 16:24, David George wrote: >>> Hi David >>> >>> I hope you don't mind this email out of the blue but I noticed your >>> post on UKNOF. >> >> Yeah, I do mind. If I'd asked for opinions or recommendations for >> the sort of stuff you sell I'd have been happy to discuss it with >> you. As it is, sending unsolicited sales junk on the back of a couple >> of unrelated comments to UKNOF is a good way to not get new >> business. > > We just signed up ADVA as our latest sponsor for UKNOF26. Our sponsor > T&Cs explicitly prohibit sponsors from making unsolicited approaches to > meeting attendees, and ADVA have always respected this when they attend > meetings. Our T&Cs didn't this far cover mailing list members too :-( > > Our sponsor contacts at ADVA have already been in touch with > us expressing their distress at any misunderstanding. We'll look at > updating the sponsor T&Cs. > > Keith >
