ANST - commercial spam ... was: ANST-Announce - Amber Merchant At Beltain.

[Lorraine and/or Kief]

Heilsa all...

'wolf stated about this post:

> > I am Mhairi MacKay. Some of you may already know me as I often merchant 
>in
> > Northern Ansteorra. I have spoken to several people about the lack of 
>good
> > amber available in the midwest and have mentioned that I would be 
>carrying
> > amber as soon as I could locate a good source. That has been done and I 
>am
> > pleased to announce that the amber is in and it is beautiful! And my
> > wholesaler, who is in Lithuania, assures me that there is NO shortage of
> > amber, only a lot of greedy retailers who want to keep the prices jacked 
>up.
> > I will be at the BELTAINE in OKC this weekend. And as always, I will 
>also
> > have sterling silver(lots of large size rings!!), gemstone jewelry, and
> > books. I hope to see all there!
>
>question ... is a blatant commercial advertisement a legitimate use of a 
>newly
>formed channel dedicated to kingdom level announcements ???

For the most part...IMO...yes. It was of interest to me and others that this 
merchant would be at a particular place with a new source of a particular 
product.

>to this one, such would be semi-acceptable to the extant, general channels,
>definitely not on the new channel.  it's a pity that some seek to 
>immediatly co-
>op this new informatiuon source for their own commercial profit ... spam by 
>any
>other name.

It's kind of odd that you are ofttimes seen carping about "multiple 
postings" and when someone uses a method to avoid that you still have a 
problem. As well, what about the free speech rights you talk about so often?

>PEOPLE ... PLEASE ... understand ... TOPICALITY !!!!!

Exactly... topicality means SCA related. This advertisement was extremely 
SCA related. Personally I find its topicality very related to what we do. 
Unlike some of the unbelievably "mundane" computer related posts we've been 
forced to read lately............

>it's really not that difficult ... show some restraint and try to 
>understand
>the focus of the system channels as they are setup *before* you post, and 
>then
>post where it is appropriate .... if you have questions, ask the moderator
>*before*.

Restraint and focus are good words. Perhaps we should set up 
"alt-SCA-computer"

>'wolf

Waes Thu Hael kinfolk...
Kief
"Better the Hammer than the nail..."


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