Michael and others, As far as the one ad per week "rule" being a "gentlemen's agreement", here is Art's post of August 21, 2005:
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 23:38:22 -0700 From: "Art" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> Subject: [meteorite-list] From the Admin - update on List Policies Good Evening; Here are the latest updates of the List policies (note # 7 regarding frequency of advertisement posts) : 1. All posts should be related to meteorites in some way. 2. All posts should be courteous and professional (profanity will result in removal). 3. Do NOT post private messages or personal attacks to the list. 4. Include a relevant -subject- in the subject field of the email on all posts. 5. Do NOT send HTML or Rich Text formatted emails; only TEXT will be posted. 6. Do NOT send emails with files attached (include a web link to the file). 7. Advertisement posts should be limited to once a week - per member. 8. All Advertisement posts should have the word AD in the subject of the email. Your support of these policies will lead to the continued success of this interesting and positive forum environment, thank you! Art Jones - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meteorite Mailing List Admin ______________________________________________ Although this is not reflected in the list of rules on the Meteorite Central Page, this update was directly from Art. I don't mind the ads being more frequent than that but I thought all of you might like to read what Art had to say on it a little over a year ago when this subject had heated up again. My best, Thomas --- Michael L Blood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 11/29/06 12:41 PM, Dave Carothers at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Geez Doug, > > If you're OK with Steve's posts, then you're > implicitly saying it's OK for > > every one else to act the same way. If everyone > else was as inconsiderate > > as Steve(Chicago) Arnold, there would be chaos on > the list. Martin and the > > other posters are just asking that everyone follow > the rules. > > Dave Carothers > --------- > Come on, Dave, > It was clarified long ago that there is no > official "rule" against > more than 1 ad per week - that was "a gentlemen's > agreement" and > though Chicago Steve has been called many names, I > don't remember > anyone ever accusing him of being a "gentleman." > Best wishes, Michael > PS: As for "Chaos" on the list - that's ALWAYS been > what this list > is - chaotic - nearly, dare I say, anarchistic? The > one exception is Art's > list of rules. If people chronically and/or > blatantly ignore them, Art > suspends or even bans them. Other than that, anarchy > pretty much > manifests throughout the list. > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list