This message is from: Steve McIlree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Carol--
Saturday, Saturday, November 07, 1998, you wrote: > This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur Rivoire) > Hello - From Carol Rivoire at Beaver Dam Farm in Nova Scotia. > Okay! Okay! No more advertising from me. Describe our wonderful Fjords by > name, rank, and serial number only,. . . and without adjectives? Impossible! As you originally pointed out, there have been horses and other items offered for sale here on the list in the past. Nobody objected to those advertisements. Perhaps that was because they were short, to the point, and submitted only once; in a word, unobtrusive. However, it seems that a lot of people, including me, could see that a major part of the list traffic was going to become "Carol's Horse of the Day". Your "Computers for Dummies" book was correct, most lists ban advertising outright. Even my new policy is more open than most. I feel you took unfair advantage of my generous policy with your verbose copy. Surely you wouldn't have the same reticence about dropping adjectives in classified space where you were paying by the word. It appears to me that the size of the display ads you run is somewhat governed by the ad rates of the various magazines. I think that if I were a professional horseseller, I would take advantage of any form of free advertising, whether it was press releases or once a month "name, rank and serial number listing". That way, if someone was looking for a "12 year-old 14.2hh gelding well trained to ride and drive", they could contact me and I could send them pages of glowing description with pictures attached. And I would certainly be delighted to know that I could present him again next month, and the month thereafter until I finally sold him. Oh well, to each their own. As for people being afraid to speak up for fear of being "pounced upon", I would like to say that of the dozen or so lists I participate in, this one is by far the most civil. Anyone who is scared here had better never try to "swim with the sharks" on USENET or any of the big horse lists. Finally, I resent your implications that there is any faction of the list against you and people on the list who you identify as your supporters. I don't think that there is any cause to try to start any "them against us" feeling here. This is the last time I intend to address this issue here. If anyone has problems with list policies, please address them to me off-list. -- Steve McIlree & Cynthia Madden -- Pferd, Keyah, Skipper, Tank -- Omaha, Nebraska, USA People may talk of first love--but give me the flush, and triumph, and glorious sweat of a first ride. --George Borrow(1803-1881)
