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From: "David E. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Promotion of services on-list
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?
Yes. That's part of the deal they got when they signed up. Does it mean
that they can post an ad every time they want? Not at all. But they can
certainly let folks know when they have a solution that fits a question that
was asked.
AND they DO get to post ads according to the vendor member schedule. Right
now that means once per quarter.
(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.
Donations to WISPA are NOT tax deducatble. WISPA is a 501c6 corp. That's a
non profit LOBBYING corp. Dues are not deductable, but we're also able to
do much more at the congressional level without getting in trouble for it.
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
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