"Red Hat Releases Fedora 18 Beta"

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 11/28/2012 05:31 PM, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
>>
> We only ship things to those lists. Most of the media who pay 
> attention are subscribed to at least announce list, though many are 
> also subscribed to the marketing list as well for news.
>
> The press at fp.o mailing address is basically "incoming only."
>
> Direct outreach/contact has always been handled by someone at RHT in 
> the PR department, in conjunction with the FPL, because they have the 
> extensive database of contacts and etc. that is meticulously pruned 
> and kept up to date, have access to press wire, etc. 

Any reason why our own marketing community cant start creating and 
maintaining our own extensive database of contacts so on and so forth 
and we simply stop dealing with/through Red Hat PR or any other third 
party or sponsor?

JBG