RE: Sales Pitches

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil - 

Here's the difference.  At least for me.

I do shareware.  I'm not a vendor, per say.  It's a hobby.  It's affordable.
It works.  I only post it as a reply to someone who asks a question as to
how to do something.  I don't randomly post, like recruiters do.  Others on
the list are interested in what each of us is doing, whether it is writing
software, writing books, etc.  Lurkers that just post their vended software
and don't offer any technical assistance and recruiters that just find the
list and post here thinking they've found a "gold mine" I agree are
annoying.

Anyone else?

Bradley V. Stone
e-RPG! - www.bvstools.com/erpg.html
BVS/Tools - www.bvstools.com
Netshare400 - www.netshare400.com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Kestenbaum [mailto:pike4@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 12:07 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Sales Pitches
> 
> 
> I find something very confusing about this list. If a 
> recruiter wanders in
> and offers a perfectly legitimate AS/400 Job opportunity, of 
> which there are
> fewer and fewer these days to begin with, everyone within 
> spitting distance
> starts up the sling shots, but when you have blatant commercial sales
> pitches at every other corner here, that's OK, no one's 
> bothered. It makes
> the honorability of this list very suspect, to the point 
> where I'm not sure
> whether many of the questions posed are merely touts, so that 
> the merchants
> can hustle in their wares.
> Phil Kestenbaum
> 
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