Hi,
At the risk of starting an unnecessary argument, let me say that I think this kind of email is fine. Paid support is a form of help/support, so even though the mailing list description doesn't specifically list consulting as one of the allowed topics, it seems to me that it fits within the "spirit of the law", if not the letter ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_and_spirit_of_the_law). Of course, spamming the list is never a good idea, but a single email sent to announce a new consulting company seems fine - and, of course, potentially useful to people looking for help.
(Full disclosure: I too am a consultant. And I know Jeroen and Karsten.)
-Yaron
On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 4:41 PM Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
This seems to me to be an advertisement for commercial services that was sent to a mailing list that is operated by a nonprofit and is intended for MediaWiki system administrators. The description if the mailing list is "This is a multilingual list for help/support with running/configuring MediaWiki. It is intended for people who are running wikis with the MediaWiki software and for announcements of new versions, bug fixes, and security issues." It seems to me that advertising commercial services here is well outside of the intended purposes of this list, and is a misuse of Wikimedia Foundation resources.
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Wed, May 8, 2019, 13:07 Professional.Wiki info@professional.wiki wrote:
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