I agree. That's what I was trying to get through as well, either enforcement of the rules or non-enforcement. Just make it equal across the board for those who do or do not pay certain dues.
Zack On 5/17/07, Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I also think that WISPA really should do a better job of policing our lists. We now have enough vendor members that we're seeing some overlap and we have more responsibilities to them. laters, Marlon (509) 982-2181 (408) 907-6910 (Vonage) Consulting services 42846865 (icq) WISP Operator since 1999! [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.odessaoffice.com/wireless www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam ----- Original Message ----- From: "David E. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 7:41 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Promotion of services on-list > Zack Kneisley wrote: > >> I don't feel that ANY promotion of products or services in a signature of >> this particular list should be allowed unless you pay for it. > > That gets into the incredibly fuzzy question of "what counts as > promotion," though. > > Let's take the email thread, as an example. > > If I'm the owner of SuperDeluxeEmail and post "you should use my company > because it's the best," that's probably self-promotion. > > What if I say "you should use my company because I'm a WISPA member?" Is > that promotion, or an advertisement of the sort WISPA has been known to > offer to paying vendor members? > > What if I don't disclose that I own SuperDeluxeEmail? > > What if I'm using a sock puppet to tell people how awesome > SuperDeluxeEmail is? > > What if, instead of being the owner of the company, I'm just a minority > investor? Or "merely" a very satisfied customer? > > What if I think it's a lousy company and I want you to use their service > so you'll think it's lousy and join me in publicly bad-mouthing them? > > There's a lot of subtle levels here. > > Honestly, IMO a lot of the value of this list comes from the fact that a > lot of different vendors are directly, or indirectly, represented here. > A little self-promotion is probably inevitable, and probably healthy. > (If you can't promote yourself and your business at least a little bit, > you won't be in business for very long.) > > Giving WISPA money doesn't (or at least shouldn't) mean that everyone > walks on eggshells around your booth in the ongoing trade show that is > this mailing list, and doesn't mean that we'll overlook any problems or > shortcomings in your product. Conversely, if you make a good product, we > won't ignore it out-of-hand because you haven't yet tithed. (We'll > probably encourage you to do so, but...) > > If we're going to start treating some folks differently based solely > upon whether they're paying members of WISPA, this list loses a lot of > its value. > > David Smith > Employed by [[ That information is not available at your security > clearance, citizen. ]] > -- > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
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