Bill,
In the spirit of the policy, I feel it would be best to send these to John
for review and have them posted on Friday. We'll leave it up to our able
List Moderator to determine if the Commercial identifier needs to be added
to such a post. While the posts are from an individual, they are announcing
a commercial product...fine line, but do you understand where I'm coming
from?
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: bill_og [mailto:haywarb@b...]
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 3:16 PM
To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [BRHSlist] Re: IMPORTANT! Commercial Posting Policy
Dave,
Will it still be acceptable for those of us who are not
dealor/vendors to pass on to the list "FYI announcements" about BR
related books & products that may interest our list members?
For example, I usually post to the list any BR O-gauge model
offerings that I hear about just to keep other interested members
informed. Since I am not a dealor, vendor, stock holder, or employee
of any model manufacturer or publisher, I do not profit from these
postings in any way and therefore I do not consider these posts to
be "commercial".
Can we still make these type of posts with out any restrictions ?
Should we follow the above guidelines for them and also mark
them "commercial", even though in these cases we are not the
seller/manufacturer/publisher ?
I certainly want to understand and follow the rules.
Thanks for your efforts with maintaining the high quality of BRHSlist.
Bill H.
--- In BRHSlist@y..., "David E. Lotz" <Dave_Lotz@m...> wrote:
> BRHSlisters:
>
> I've reviewed the survey taken:
>
> POLL QUESTION: What type of commercial postings would
> you prefer to see on the BRHSlist?
>
> CHOICES AND RESULTS
> - None at all., 4 votes, 10.81%
> - Only those that have been approved/reviewed by the list
Moderator, 1
> votes, 2.70%
> - Any with Burlington Route related content , 15 votes, 40.54%
> - Any with railroad/hobby related content, 1 votes, 2.70%
> - Any commercial posting regardless of content., 0 votes, 0.00%
> - Limited to Burlington Route related content approved/reviewed by
the List
> Moderator, 16 votes, 43.24%
>
> Then I've thought about the comments/suggestions from those on the
list with
> commercial interests, and have formulated the following policy for
accepting
> commercial postings on the BRHSlist. If there are objections to
any part of
> it, please email me directly and we will begin a dialogue. The
intent of
> this policy is to define the rules following common sense and
courtesy, not
> to be heavy-handed or dictatorial.
>
> COMMERCIAL POSTING POLICY for the BRHSlist
>
> 1. Commercial postings must be items related only to the
collective
> "Burlington Route"
> 2. Commercial postings will be allowed only on Fridays.
> 3. Commercial postings will be moderated - sent to the List
Moderator for
> approval and posting
> (The moderator will fairly review the post for adherence to
this policy and
> either approve
> and post the message to the list, or make suggestions for
change if
> needed.)
> 4. No pop-up or banner advertisements will be tolerated
> 5. Postings should attempt to be informational in nature
> 6. Commercial Postings must have the word "Commercial" as a part
of the
> subject line.
> (This is to allow those list members who do not wish to
receive these
> postings
> to set a filter in their mail program to eliminate them.)
> 7. All replies/inquiries to commercial postings should be emailed
direct -
> not to the BRHSlist
> 8. A subscriber violating this policy will receive only one
warning - a
> second violation will result in being banned from the list.
> 9. Non-commercial posts from subscribers should not contain
any "signature
> footer" promoting the commercial venture -
> i.e. - phone number, web site, sales terms, etc...
> 10. This policy is subject to modification at the discretion of
the list
> owner.
>
> David Lotz
> (314-846-8632
> * E-mail: Dave_Lotz@m...
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