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patdude123: I dont think most pople in GZ are tolls users and I also dont think they appreaciate you using GZ as your personal advertorial outlet - in fact I think the GZ rules specifically forbid it... A beer sounds fine - your shout
Before this goes too off topic...
Yes, posting press releases it's a bit tacky. I sometimes post in the forums press releases I receive when I don't think they should be in the news section. But I agree companies posting the press releases directly it's a bit strange.
Why? Let's see this way - this is not YOUR voice. This is the USERS' voice. A few companies asked to open forums on Geekzone and we obliged - Xnet for example, and they have a very active participation, and people love it. Or TelstraClear who had a special profile created for them to post in the forums - and albeit not as active as Xnet they still work they ways here - unlike Telecom and Vodafone, who have lots of lurkers but never got officialy out of the closet.
Back to Xnet... Just read their forum and you will see people enjoy the personal service received there. And they are actually interested in solving problems, if any, when it happens. And they do it here.
I tried, and tried, and tried, but neither Telecom or Vodafone are interested in this kind of participation. PErhaps too afraid of what they would find?
As for the Geekzone profile: we have more than 10,000 New Zealand users registered in the forums. Only the most "hardcore" geeks actually post all the time and those probably are heavy VoIP users, but the vast majority is not. You'd be surprised if you could see the number of unique visitors we receive in the forums every day, and how many posts we have - it's a lot of lurkers around here, so don't discount them, because they still use POTS and related services.
