<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>>>>There is a big difference between publicly posting offering services to the list and harvesting all the email addresses and them contacting everyone privately<br> </div><div><br></div><div>No way in the world I am going to take side with those guys, I don't know them from a whole in the wall. But your reply begs for the following question: Are you saying that if they would have posted in the regular forum offering their services, then it would have been okay with you?</div><div><br></div><div>Christian Savinovich</div><div><strong><em>VoIP & Telephony Consultant</em></strong></div><div>646-982-3572</div><div> </div><div><br><br></div>
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Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] DIDForSale spam<br>
From: chris <<a href="mailto:tknchris@gmail.com">tknchris@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Thu, January 10, 2013 5:34 pm<br>
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion<br>
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There is a big difference between publicly posting offering services<br>
to the list and harvesting all the email addresses and them contacting<br>
everyone privately<br>
<br>
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 5:32 PM, C. Savinovich<br>
<<a href="mailto:c.savinovich@itntelecom.com">c.savinovich@itntelecom.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>>>>Isn't this precisely the raison d'être for [asterisk-biz]?<br>
><br>
> Oh my goodness!, the asteriz-biz? nooo, they will kill you if you try to<br>
> post anything offering your services!... that list ceased to provide any<br>
> value and died a long time ago precisely because its members ran each other<br>
> away from it. A while back, I wrote a nice click-to-call service and I<br>
> dared put a post indicating that I was offering it for a fee, and in no time<br>
> they called me "spammer". There is really no incentive to reward someone<br>
> else's achievements, unless you tell them that you are given them your code<br>
> for free, then they want it (totally contradicting the meaning of the word<br>
> "business").<br>
><br>
><br>
> Christian Savinovich<br>
> VoIP & Telephony Consultant<br>
> 646-982-3572<br>
><br>
><br>
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> -------- Original Message --------<br>
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] DIDForSale spam<br>
> From: Chris Bagnall <<a href="mailto:asterisk@lists.minotaur.cc">asterisk@lists.minotaur.cc</a>><br>
> Date: Thu, January 10, 2013 5:17 pm<br>
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion<br>
> <<a href="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users@lists.digium.com</a>><br>
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> On 10 Jan 2013, at 22:09, C. Savinovich <<a href="mailto:c.savinovich@itntelecom.com">c.savinovich@itntelecom.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Unfortunately, there is a fine line between being a forum where people can<br>
>> exchange ideas, and being a forum where people can find asterisk<br>
>> consultants, and both don't seem to co-exist well together.<br>
><br>
> Isn't this precisely the raison d'être for [asterisk-biz]?<br>
><br>
><br>
> Kind regards,<br>
><br>
> Chris<br>
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