[MR] Shameless Marketing (was RE: War Wagon Salesman)

[scry42 at cox.net]

One wonders about all this ongoing chatter about one slightly off-topic email, if avoiding off-topic email was really the goal...  Slamming people who have moved here from other kingdoms, and with such vehemence, seems perhaps a bit below the level where I like to believe the Atlantian bar is set...

Tuppence.
 -- Eadan
> 
> From: "logan" <dukelogan at bellsouth.net>
> Date: 2004/02/27 Fri AM 10:04:43 EST
> To: <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
> Subject: RE: [MR] Shameless Marketing (was RE: War Wagon Salesman)
> 
> but you cant buy advertising space in the acorn if the things sold do not
> pertain to the middle ages (so no coleman chair salespeople need apply).
> personally i dont care if someone puts out a one time "hey if you cant trust
> a fellow scadian to buy a used car" email.  it cant be any worse than the
> tons of emails that dont really have much information that flood the merry
> rose on a daily basis.  while most of the non topic stuff is just simple
> chatter it really falls into the same category.  or they could put "ot" in
> the header.  that way people that dont want to read email that isnt specific
> to whatever can delete it without being bother by it.
> 
> i deleted the email about the vehicles after about 2 sentences since i am
> not in the market for one.  no harm no foul.  but if it is the consensus of
> the list "owner" that it is inappropriate then thats that.  8^)
> 
> regards
> logan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: atlantia-bounces at atlantia.sca.org
> [mailto:atlantia-bounces at atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of Sayyida Halima
> al-Shafi'i of Raven's Cove
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 8:57 AM
> To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> Subject: Re: [MR] Shameless Marketing (was RE: War Wagon Salesman)
> 
> I am going to have to agree with Lord William...as a self-employed small 
> business owner and member of the SCA, even I can see that despite the 
> need to market myself to survive, the Merry Rose is not an appropriate 
> venue for blatant advertising.  I delete spam unread, and work hard to 
> protect myself from it.  However, when it comes under the guise of the 
> Merry Rose, it sneaks in under the radar and I resent it even more.  If 
> a SCA-dian owned business wants to promote itself to SCA-dians, then the 
> honorable method is to purchase advertising space in the Acorn, or 
> Tournements Illuminated, or some such other SCA media outlet.
> 
> In service,
> Sayyida Halima al-Shafi'i
> Raven's Cove
> 
> Mark Bush (personal account) wrote:
> 
> >did not join the Merry Rose to get more. There is NOTHING that is
> >SCA-related about anyone plugging their business in this medium. My opinion
> >is that I would NEVER do business with someone who solicits in an
> >inappropriate channel like this, regardless of their membership in the
> >Society. There is an issue of honor at play here IMHO. 
> >  
> >
> 
> 
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