Thank you for your concern. Any ad can be seen as spam. Luckily for us, SAFE is such a good and large-scale project that the 2% people who would potentially find it through this “spam” will be infinitely grateful. 
I wonder guerrilla marketing also requires surprise not more of the same…
So, perhaps for a service or feature and demonstrating that would be good.
I don’t know, if that bot on Telegram can send beyond the one channel for example… engage with some social media influencers in other arenas like Facebook… if that kind of capability is possible.
Spam on existing wallets more likely to be ignored… and same for email campaigns gifting.
It is enough for 1 article in a well-known source to indicate that there is such a campaign and interested people will check and use their coupon for a free test of the network.
Then it will not be “spam” but a wonderful gift from one community of people to another community of people. 
In general I have to agree with this. I think it would do more damage than good. Here’s how I’d imagine the headlines would read: “Project that Couldn’t Deliver for 15 Years Spams Wallets with Useless Coin…Still no Product”.
While I see the humor, I think resources (I.e. time, effort, and funds) could be better allocated elsewhere (e.g. supporting exchange listings, bounty rewards, 3rd Party dApp developers, etc.)
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We can wait for the launch of the network, no problem.
Then the headlines will be: “A network that took nearly 2 decades to complete comes out with a generous gift to the largest crypto community in the world.”
I am also sure that there will be people from our community who would not give money to add us to the exchanges, but would donate a small place in the Safe Network to our brothers from the Ethereum community.
Another title: “For its launch, the Safe Network donates 1 petabyte to the Ethereum community”
If the coin had some utility - to pay to create an account and upload some data - that might work. If it’s just advertising, I don’t think it’s a good idea.
I’ve no idea if we could give it utility though, and setting that up is probably works for Maidsafe, which would rule it out IMO. Maybe once more details are clear wrt wallets and on boarding, something could be done, but I don’t think we can figure that out at this stage.
If we had ERC20.MAID, could we airdrop that? I think that would be inherently useful b/c the recipient can convert it for SAFE. I also think it would be interesting if holding MAID gave you some sort of privilege/access to future testnets on the way to Beta. That would help to give MAID utility beyond just being a proxy token.
Okay, so the idea of an advertising token falls away.
Only the coupon token for free storage space remains.
I imagine the steps to get a free space like this:
- You generate your wallet in the Safe network.
- You sign a message from etherium wallet holding a coupon token: “Send money to this Safecoin wallet for purchase on storage (1-100 mb).”
- You send the signed message to community-controlled e-mail and a member of the community sends you enough safecoins to buy 1-100 mb.
Everything is done by the community without the company. No need KYC. One address can claim only once, ie. they cannot steal more than we intended to give.
We don’t need such a token for this Airdrop. The community can do the work manually as described above with community generated ERC20 token coupon.
My point is that it’s already confusing enough with MAID and SAFE. Introducing a third token/coin is liable to make all that confusion even worse. So, if we can do something interesting with MAID, we should.
This also violates the terms of the Network which is that resources are purchased with SAFE. Yet another reason to keep it simple by not introducing a third token/coin.
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This is a coupon for free storage, it is not traded anywhere, it is not available on the exchanges, there is no place to buy it, there is nothing to go wrong.
The Network would have to honor it. So that’s functionality the Network would have to integrate. Now, if the coupon was in the form of MAID then no additional integration would be needed.
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Sorry I obviously didn’t explain well.
You, me, whoever wants, donates 1 safecoin, for example.
A committee holds the safecoin and sends it to people from the ethereum network who have made a safecoin wallet and have a coupon after providing a signed message.
This could work, although I think it would be best timed with a live Network.
If we do it during the beta it will be free for us. If we do it during the start of the network we will have to donate a real safecoins…
This doesn’t make sense. A Safecoin is a Safecoin. The reason why it would be better do this when the Network is live (e.g. once SAFE is in existence) is b/c prior to a live Network I think it’s best to promote usage of MAID. Once the Network is live, MAID has no utility beyond redeeming SAFE (which is essentially what the coupon token you’re proposing would do as well). In essence, the coupon token you’re proposing is just another form of MAID that someone else who either held MAID or acquired SAFE would have to back.
Once again, it all seems unnecessarily complicated. The only reason I think it could have differential use when compared to MAID is that you could airdrop it. This is why I asked whether ERC20.MAID could be airdropped as well.
@neo can you please help me explain why it will be free to upload to the SAFE network during the beta?
The point you’ve not made is why bother when test coins are for free… spamming ETH wallets aside.
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You are still missing the point. There is no point offering a coupon for something that is free.
Thank you, @davidpbrown. Eloquently put.
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Free does not mean that everyone can get it. 
Plus with 1 coupon you can claim in any alpha, beta and finally in the real network.