Im surprised an ASF member wouldn't know better and then would go further and try to defend his spamming of user lists. I think I'll pass on his "guru level" support even if he does know the project on the "code level".
On Wednesday, November 13, 2013, André Warnier wrote: > Gurkan Erdogdu wrote: > >> This email does not have any relation with my activities in ASF and its >> projects. Its solely related with my marketing team in which how you get >> emails. If I thought that it will be a spam, would I put my email address >> to sender? I think no! We thought that you can benefit from this email. >> >> Anyway, I closed the discussion from my side! If you are really feeling >> bad now because of receiving such email from me, please unsubscribe the >> list. >> Cheers. >> >> Gurkan >> >> > Gurkan, > > I am not an Apache committer, but I do contribute from time to time to the > Tomcat Users lists, using my free time to try to help others. > > It annoys me in general when I receive unsollicited advertisement emails. > It annoys me all the more when these unsolicited advertisement emails come > from someone who obviously used an email address scraped (or worse) from a > list to which I participate. > And even more so when it turns out that the person at the origin of it is > someone who should be aware of at least some ethics commonly accepted in > the Open Source world. > > I did not choose to be on your marketing list. Why should I have to > inconvenience myself by "opting out" of it by sending some email to someone > or something I do not know, at the risk of my email appearing on even more > such spam lists ? > (Do you happily click on all the "unsubscribe" links that you receive ?) > > So please, since you were the one to put me on that list against my will, > take the burden yourself of unsubscribing me right now. > > In any case, if the objective was to gather favorable potential customer > attention, the reactions so far on this list should have shown by now that > the result is rather negative. > On this type of list that was quite predictable, which doesn't speak very > well for your marketing team's sense. > And you haven't helped your case by your own reactions so far. > > Since this correspondence will stay in the list archives, maybe it will > help deter others in the future. Aleluia. > > Note also that if the objective was to advertise your capacity to provide > professional help for matters related to Tomcat, there was a better way to > do that all along : > > http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/SupportAndTraining > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
