[asterisk-users] DUDE!!!!! was RE: Dialplan Visualization(Extensions.conf or Dialplan Show)

[Brent Davidson]

John Signorello wrote:
> excuse me...
>
> But did you not just post
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> [asterisk-users] OT Nice IBM 1U Server Gets Along w/Old and New    
> Digium Boards Cheap X305 $199
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> Did you not provide a link to a COMMERICAL entity?
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> Wasn't your a post a unsolicited post, that is, not in response to a 
> question???
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> There seems to be two standards here.
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> The fact that you do not work for them is immaterial.
>
> If your argument is no commercial reference at all, then how do you
> explain your post?
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>
>
>   
I felt like the cogoblue stuff is out of place and off topic, so I agree 
that it should not be arbitrarily posted as a solution to any question 
that it might seem to somehow solve.

However, I do not take exception to the IBM server post, even though 
strict adherence to the rules would probably make it "illegal" as well.

There is an inherent difference between the two.  The cogoblue post was 
made by a paid salesman seeking personal profit indirectly through his 
company.  The server link, on the other hand was marked as OT, it was 
not posted as a solution to someone's problem, and the poster most 
likely does not seek to profit personally from the post.  Many people in 
the Asterisk community are on the lookout for inexpensive hardware with 
enough power to run a decent sized system.  So the inherent difference 
comes down to one post being potentially helpful and the other not being 
potentially helpful.  There wasn't even any obvious mention in cogoblue 
post that it was, in fact, a commercial product.  If most of us weren't 
familiar with the product already because of the previous over-posting, 
then one could be slightly misled by the post.

And to make matters worse, it triggered a tangent that has completely 
derailed the OP's thread and taken all focus away from the OP's original 
question.

Just my two sense,
Brent