Clint Ricker wrote: > Just making it known that blatant self-promotion by non-Vendor members is > bad taste means that self-promotion is done at one's own risk--sure, I may > let people know I offer a service, but I also may alienate all of my > potential customers.
And blatant self-promotion by vendor members is better, just because they gave WISPA some money? (I'm not saying this is necessarily your opinion, either express or implied, it was just a really good place to interject the above.) I don't think it's fair or appropriate for any individual or any business entity to get preferential treatment just because they've made a (probably tax-deductible) donation. For the present sort of issue, really the only thing that should get anyone any special treatment is technical merit - if you make the best widget in the industry, a lot of people will say "yup that's a mighty fine widget." Fortunately, I think most of the list agrees with this, at least in principle. The question is just "what constitutes unnecessary self-promotion," and there's no single answer to that - it pretty much has to be decided on a case-by-case basis. (If I'm wrong, and there really is a significant "paid vendor members = better than" sentiment on the list, well, that's another story entirely.) David Smith Bureau 42 Enterprises Multigalactic -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
