Rick, Where does this stop? If one vendor solicits a honest opinion on the list, all vendors could. A slippery slope that could potentially destroy the original intent of the list (not mentioning the undesirable SPAM). The original purpose of the list is to share knowledge between educational institutions about WLANs. Educause accepts commercial lurkers and neutral technology contributions from vendors. So far it has served both communities fairly well.
A lot of subscribers to this list do not even want commercial entities lurking. We have been able to maintain a decent equilibrium for almost 10 years: Nov 13, 2000 is when the list was moved from University of Tennessee to Educause http://listserv.educause.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A1=ind0011&L=WIRELESS-LAN Regards, Philippe Hanset On Aug 12, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Rick Brown wrote: > Shouldn't it be okay for a vendor to solicit both positive and negative > comments on their own equipment? If you'll reread the post, Devin was asking > for comments about his own companies equipment. Seems if a vendor is willing > to let the dirty laundry out concerning their own stuff it should be > perfectly fine. > > If that is a problem then vendors shouldn't even be on the list. > > Just my $.02 worth. > > Rick > > > > Philippe Hanset wrote: >> >> All, >> >> Having education affiliated people asking questions about vendors on the list >> is part of the purpose of this medium. Having vendors doing the same is not. >> >> please read the guidelines of the listserv at: >> >> http://www.educause.edu/Community/ConstituentandDiscussionGroups/ConstituentandDiscussionGroupP/892 >> >> Thank you for your understanding. >> >> Regards, >> >> Philippe Hanset >> Wireless-LAN Constituent Group leader >> >> ********** >> Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent >> Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. >> > > > -- > <sig6.gif> > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
