Brad, from my point of view if you have a product or service that meets
business needs at a reasonable price, and reliably so, I wish you good
luck.  Advertise it in the appropriate fora, mail it, hand it out at
supermarkets, drop it into letterboxes (even mine) - whatever technique
works.  Personally I hate spam and junk mail, but that's quite another
issue.

It's your right in a free market economy to develop your business that
way.  

HOWEVER, if you seek to do so in a way that arguably entraps customers
into an onerous, one-sided contract, then I have the right (even
obligation) to object, and to warn my customers about it.  Especially
when they could be the ones getting burnt by such practices.

It's NOT your right to deceive customers.

If you want to sell home cooked recipes, go right ahead.  If you were to
view that market with the same contempt and disdain that you show this
one, then you would get short shrift there as well.

You see, most of us have principles, and we are all prejudiced against
those who appear not to.  I suspect that therein lies the root cause of
the bias of which you complain.

Ron Stark



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Norrish [mailto:brad§brad.com.au] 
> Sent: Thursday, 26 February 2004 3:15 PM
> To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
> Subject: Re: [DNS] INTRAS NetSecurity (Brad Norrish)
> 
> 
> Kim
> 
> In your desperate-anxious-scramble to defend your friend 
> josh's behaviour and posting  you have ruled it is ok for 
> josh to say  "Brads selling this it these prices - it's a 
> ripoff" is acceptable
> 
> BUT
> 
> If I was to say "Brad's selling this at these prices - It's a 
> great deal" then it would be unacceptable
> 
> With both situations dealing with a company that has nothing 
> to do with the industry.
> 
> What about if the order of the postings was reversed. I said 
> "My company external to the industry is great - it does this" 
> AND THEN Josh replied "Actually Brads company external to the 
> industry is not so great - it does this"
> 
> Does the negative about a company external to the industry 
> have to come before the positive?
> 
> REMEMBER
> 
> Who your friends are is irrelevant.
> 
> You are running a list of the govt endorsed Auda. I don't 
> care how the list started. It is now a communication list on 
> the organisation's website that is endorsed to administer 
> .au. YOU HAVE TO BE PREPARED to put your personal alliances 
> (and opinions) aside to effectively run this industry list.
> 
> 
> PERSONALLY
> 
> My opinion is you are UNABLE to put your own biases and 
> conflicts of interest aside and effectively and justly 
> control the list.
> 
> Fat Cat could post "Brad Norrish's 50 Greatest Home Cooked 
> Meals" and you would deem it acceptable on this official 
> industry list. People who do not share your opinions are silenced.
> 
> This management of the list reflected in the value of the 
> list and that of the person who runs it.
> 
> Brad
> 
> P.S. I'm selling a Sea Doo jet boat 35 hrs great condition great price
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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