Hi Everyone,
I'm having a bit of a problem with some of my list members who seem to be
bending the spirit of the rules for my list regarding commercial
advertising.
Here is the section:
>2) Advertising, spam or "Virus Alert" messages are not permitted.
>However, there are 3 exceptions:
>
>a) Individuals are most certainly encouraged to post "For Sale" or "Wanted"
>messages, but please keep them concise and limit them to one message per
>item or
>group of items.
>
>b) Vendors or manufacturers of N Scale equipment are similarly encouraged
>to post announcements of new products but do try to keep the value of the
>content
>high on facts and low on marketspeak.
>
>c) If you know of an upcoming event or meeting that may be of interest to N
>Scale model railroaders, please post complete details. Club meeting
>information is
>particularly encouraged.
>
>Ensure that you also include any URL's in the announcement.
Some individuals are contributing nothing to the list and only post a
one-line message, at least bi-monthly, notifying everyone that their
websites have been updated. When you go to their website, you discover
that they are a retail business. To date, this has not been much of an
issue until one particular person has decided to post their "update"
messages with a higher frequency and I started receiving complaints from my
subscribers.
The one-line posters disagree that their update announcements are, in fact,
advertising.
What do you think? I'm too close to the problem and need a reality check,
here. In advance, thanks for any wisdom.
Bill
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