Hello List, Just to follow up on the request Graham made.
First - this is not 100% final, but should be by Monday morning and looks to be: We will accept this type of post in that particular forum - with some rules: The account used to post these topics must belong to a special group for this purpose. ( [OOoVendors] the group will NOT be displayed in the page legend. ) The account owner must request membership in the group and will be required to supply additional contact information to the administrators before being approved.The account used to post the topic must accept emails from forum membersThe account used to post the topic must accept PMs from forum membersOnly one post from this account at a time is permitted - board wide! The topic will be locked - no replies are allowed The Topic will allow the same 3 attachments rules as all other postsThe topic will be automatically deleted at the end of 90 daysThe account may be used to post a new topic only after the old one is deletedAttachments are automatically deleted when topics are deleted.All topics posted will have a disclaimer added to the topic.Let me go over what those mean and what you can do with this topic post and your account. First you would need to register a separate user name at the forum. This user account would be used for the sole purpose of working with this topic. Upon registering with a valid email account and validating the account in the normal fashion you would need to log on to the forum and send a private message to myself or one of the other administrators. In this private message you must include: The DBA name of the company The mailing address A phone number A contact name Your website address A brief description of the type of service or goods you will be promoting. Upon acceptance by the administrators of the site your account will be moved into a special users group, OOoVendors. This will allow the administrative staff to send messages to all group members if needed - it also will limit the rights for that account to post only to this single forum. At the same time the standard signature line of the account will be changed to read: ~ Placement on this site is not a statement of endorsement for the goods or services that may be mentioned within in any way. ~ This post is allowed as a convenience for our members - and to help support the OpenOffice.org community. You are forbidden from altering the signature line on this account in any way. FYI - on the site the signature line is separated from the body of the topic post by a bar - so it will not be directly up against your copy. If you want to use a standard style signature line in your topic post you will need to add it directly. You must have the options on the account set to accept emails and Private Messages and display your website link. ( if you do not have a web site - well, we can talk ) You may include IM links on your account also. You may include your own graphic for an avatar ( in this case a logo I would think ) that is no larger then 90 x 90 and 7K. Your topic may include up to three attachments. These can be any of the following file types, up to 128K each: png, jpeg, gif pdf odt, ods, odp, odb You may not use any Microsoft file formats - OK I just made that up for fun. Grahpics files may displayed in the body of the post and will be scaled for display ( roughly 400 x 400 is the max sixe ) - the users of course can click on them for full size views of the actual file. Other file types will be available for download. So you could distrubute a pdf brochure for instance. In this case your accounts User Control Panel will give you a count of how many times a document has been downloaded, but not who did it. The topic post and all attachements ( less the logo ) will be deleted from the server at the end of 90 days. You have the option of deleting a post before that time if you choose and the attachments will be automatically deleted also. You may put a new post up only after the first one has been deleted. You will not be notified when it is deleted. The topic will not be made a sticky and each 90 days it goes into it's proper order for display with other posts. The topic is locked, so you may not take replys using the thread. Users may contact you via email, PM or links you provide in the topic. We do not allow html code to be added directly in posts - but we can work with you if you really need something like a table markup OK - well one last item for this list. Any commercial post made to any forum at the site is regarded as SPAM - these will be the only exceptions. We are quite serious about that - since opening we have only had three attempts: one for cell phones and ipods, one for sneakers and one for ....surprise.... viagra. We set a new record on the snearker sales - 22 minutes and all posts had been deleted, the account locked and the email address used banned from any furture use in a new registration at the site. The longest living SPAM account was 90 minutes....We do not give warnings. So - if you have any comments or questions let me know - other wise I shuold get back to you by the first of the week with any final changes and hopefully a final OK to proceed. Finally - we would encourage anyone wanting to availe themselves of this to register a personal account at the site and take some time to answer questions from new users or power users ( they always have the most interesting questions anyway ), Thanks, Drew
