New Irish wine site

You work for them. So don't pretend you are some objective client.

This is not what this forum is intended for. And 99% of your audience is not even in Ireland, incredible as that may seem.

Mike

Mike Tommasi, Six Fours, France email link

I think that was intended alright Mike

Lighten up

Rather than waste alt.food.wine space expressing displeasure about 'Shilling' for one's own commercial site, I sent a direct e-mail explaining that such postings were out of place and could easily be viewed as unethical.

Daragh MacLoughlin was 'kind enough' to respond and explain that:

1) "i never tried to hide any affiliation" 2) "Ever hear of a language barrier Dan? English isnt my first language so i cannot always convey what i need to" 3) "well to be honest i didnt actually check to see the general flow of conversation or check the rules and in fact i think that was the first ever post ive made to alt groups"

So, thanks Daragh! Since I'm not in Ireland, I don't have to decide whether to do business with this company. (It would have been an easy decision, anyway). But I do often add links to merchants in other countries on my web site to help direct residents toward worthwhile merchants. I don't think I'll be putting up any positive links for this guy.

Dan

Oh you should: they've got 'Chat Lynch Badge', afterall ;-).

Sammy

Is this where someone starts a "back to wine" thread?

Lloyd

He posted as WineSeller Team. I don't see any pretense

From

"3.4 Can I advertise my wine website?

As mentioned in the Advertising on Usenet FAQ, on-topic business (including website) announcements are allowed. You may announce any wine-related website on the group. Non-wine-related website announcements are off-topic, and thus should not be posted to the group. Wine-related announcements should be limited to the launching of a website or a major addition to/subtraction from/redesign of the site, and they should ideally be informational, rather than promotional, in nature. A handy rule of thumb is that if you are posting an announcement more than once a month, you're probably posting too often, and you're likely to get on someone's nerves, even if your site is the best thing since the invention of bottled wine."

That rule sounds very well-worded to me. So what is the problem with the post? The "ideally be informational" bit is the only possible problem one could have.