HI Harald,
I appreciate your care about the community and I won't post anything related to our commercial activities to this mailing list from now on.
But I should say, that I disagree with you in your assessment of my e-mail as spam. I always care about community and gauge all my posts from a user perspective, and I wouldn't classify this as a spam. My reasoning is as following: 1. If I'm a user of Osmocom, I'd be interested in meeting a vendor in person, given a good occasion. 2. If I'm a user of Osmocom, I'd be interested in announcements of new products, compatible with Osmocom (this is a general comment, unrelated to this exact e-mail).
May be we should create a separate (low-traffic) mailing list for commercial announcements, related to Osmocom? That might be a useful way to promote a healthy ecosystem around it.
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Harald Welte laforge@gnumonks.org wrote:
Dear Alexander,
please immediately stop using this (or any other osmocom.org mailing list) for commercial advertisement and marketing of any sort.
If you check the history of this list, you will notice that Holger and I at sysmoco always have drawn a _very_ clear line and did never abuse the community lists for any kind of spam. Despite us funding the OsmoDevCon, paying for osmocom.org hosting, etc. The same holds true for the *.osmocom.org web sites. We expect the same discretion from other subscribers.
To be honest, I would have expected more sensitivity from you regarding the use of FOSS community communication channels for unsolicited commercial email.
I will immediately remove your advertisement from the list archives.
The only posts of commercial nature that I can recall are the occasional single-unit second hand sale of nanoBTSs and related equipment by individual subscribers. I consider that fair use, as it is of course in the interest of OpenBSC to enable community members to get access to inexpensive equipment for R&D, testing, etc.
Regards, Harald --
- Harald Welte laforge@gnumonks.org http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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