Here's a question for you Vocalisters: How do we feel
about voice-related commercial postings to the list
(i.e., an administrator advertising a summer program)?
There's been a recent backstage brouhaha, so we
thought we'd put it to the group to clarify the
general "no advertising" policy.
I currently bounce an awful lot of spam from
non-members, vocal and non-vocal (ranging from "HOT
CHIX NOW" to "new rock band online, $5 a month").
Should there be a distinction between vocal ads and
non-vocal spam, or should we ban it all, or just ban
ads from non-established listmembers, or what?
This would not, of course, apply to non-commercial
postings (recital announcements, etc.) or personal
recommendations ("has anyone heard of this program?"
"I did it last year and my experience was xyz"). And
it would seem reasonable, in the latter example, if
someone else brings it up, for an administrator to
respond with a kind of "disclosing my affiliation as
the X of this program, I'll answer any questions about
it" post. It's the affiliated party bringing up the
program to advertise it that's the question here. I
have no opinion about it, just wanted to clarify what
the group wants as an advertising/soliciting policy.
So I've put up a poll so you guys can vote on what the
policy should be. If I could give a personal nudge,
I'd caution against allowing "one post only from
anyone," since the usual spamming technique is to join
a group, send the spam, then leave the group --
drive-by spam, as it were. So unless you want to
embrace ALL the semi-vocal spam that currently gets
filtered out, don't choose that one.
Isabelle B.
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