Dear Readers: I suggest the following solutions for your consideration: 1. Commercial enterprises must incorporate the word "advert" as the very first word in the subject line of each ad; 2. Seek cooperation from commercial advertisers to not make multiple promotions on the same day, and to group all their promotions into one message per enterprise per day; 3. Do not discourage commercial enterprises from responding with answers to Listee's postings where that response also carries technical information that the individual list poster may find useful, or is generally informative to the other potential readers, even if the commercial enterprise also may benefit; 4. Listee's are to use the list administrator's mailbox as a destination for all complaints regarding commercial vendors use of, or alleged abuse of the list. 5. Form a committee of list members, who can act as independant arbitrators of the above point #5, in the case of "serious" disputes. The committee will not have legal responsibility, just the trust and good-will of all list participants. 6. Reporting to the list of the findings of said committee, including statistics, on a "regular basis". Marshall Ruskin 84 Westy -----Original Message----- From: David Marshall <vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Date: Monday, January 18, 1999 11:51 PM Subject: Re: Bus Depot SPAM, again! - Note from the List Admin!
>List members - > >After reading most of the follow up posts to Tim's comment, I must admit >there is almost an even split amongst people who are for vendor >"advertising" as there are people who are against vendor "advertising". >We'll personally I think, at TIMES there is too much advertising on the >list. On the other hand, I would hate to see it totally leave the list as >Ron, Ken and others (including myself) do provide the list with valuable >information, tips and can offer a lot of advice to the less knowledgeable >list members. The occasional advertisement isn't totally out of line as I >am sure most of us will agree. > >So this leaves suggestions on what we should do. I don't want to dictate >what goes on this list because it isn't my list - I like to consider myself >as a referee of sorts. I guess we have the following options: > >- ban advertising >- limit OUTRIGHT adverting to ( for example) Saturdays and Mondays >- leave things as it > >I am quite interested personally in the outcome of this because I have my >own business that deals with Volkswagen parts and accessories. I have kept >my business activities to a minimum in order not to conflict with my duties >as a list administrator. > >As always I am open to comments or suggestions both openly or via pmail. > >David Marshall - vangon list administrator >David's Volkswagen Home Page - david@volkswagen.org >Fast Forward Autobahn Sport Tuning - sales@volkswagen.org > |
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