Hi Alexander,
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:15:00AM +0200, Alexander Chemeris wrote:
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.
thanks for your attention.
Regarding SPAM: Well, then let's call it 'UCE' (unsolicited commercial email). The typical list member is somebody interested in using or developing OpenBSC. By no means has he ever explicitly given us permission to send him advertisements of any sort. So it is unsolicited. and it is commercial. and it is email.
This list is for technical discussion around the development [and use] of OpenBSC. But if we open it for commercial announcements, you will have a dozen of companies sending weekly updates on their ever-so-shiny new products, and the deveopers will leave and go elsewhere where they are not bothered by it.
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.
I'm happy to create such a list, but I have a hard time that anyone would be interested in subscribing it. So if anyone reading this message is intersted in such a new list for commercial/product announcements, please respond to this message.
I admit I'm extremely allergic to all kinds of spam/advertisements/marketing, and my view might be a bit more extreme than others. Anything that any vendor can ever hope to achieve by sending SPAM/UCE/UBE to me is that I get upset and will intentionally penalize him by not buying from him because he has sent me unsolicited mail.
Regards, Harald