Morgans wrote:
Hilton wrote

In your opinion, is it acceptable to put your company's name and/or URL
in your sig? That's not answering any question and is pimping the
product - right?'

I think that is the thin line, that Jim is talking about.

Sig lines, OK; much more than that, not OK.

I'm a big supporter of the Aero LED's, and if a conversation about thin
comes up, then pimp away. To make a product announcement is one step over
the line tho', IMHO.

Well, I'm seeing these ad hoc 'rules' being applied inconsistently. I don't
want to mention names and I'm not looking to 'stir', but what Dean did was
to post a few lines about his product, his efforts, and in a way his
contribution to aviation and aviation safety; yet people jump all over him.
All the while, there are some very very long posts about a 'product' that is
continually praised and somehow not regarded as spam. We get so much crap
in these NGs, for people to react this way to Dean's post was quite silly
IMHO. Shouldn't we be supporting each other on this NG if "pilots are
really different from the general population"? Every Oshkosh there are a
lot of posts about the smallest things, then there are those who quote a 10
page post with a one line reply and post the whole lot. Guys, a two line
post of "My product X sells for $99" really ain't that bad.

If I owned a plane, I'd be glad Dean mentioned his product here and I'd
seriously look into buying it. A lot more pilots read these NGs than the
announcements NG, so for Dean, or me, or anyone else to post the occasional
'product annoucement' should be encouraged.

OK, so normally I don't sig my posts for fear of these type of threads, but
what the heck...

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OK, there, got that out of my system, back to regular programming...