Dana Riffe wrote: > B530 List Subscribers, > > Okay. I have sat by the sidelines long enough! > > There is no 'official' policy by RootsWeb or by myself (2 yrs prior > of managing the list before moving it to RootsWeb) on selling > materials on the list. > > When the book offered by Penny started a flare 12 months ago and I > stepped into the fire and it cooled things off for a while. Well it > is appears to be refestering into another firestorm.. > > First off, I don't believe the list needs a 'set of rules', being an > anarchist at heart. But, there are always exceptions. So here is the > first 'rule' to go into the book. > > #1 - Selling Materials via the B530 Mail List > > Offers for purchase of materials will not be posted to the list at a > frequency of more that once per month ( 12 per year). All posting > will include: > A. Statement of cost and postage/mailing fees. > B. Clear policy of refund. > C. Explicate information as to the source, depth and content of the > material in it's relation to a Bennett family lineage. > > If posting are made that do not follow these simple guidelines, one > warning will be made directly to the poster and to the B530 list. On > the second infraction the poster will be removed from the list and > blocked from being able to re-subscribe. > > Now to make this democratic, let me put this to a vote. At last count > there are 250 subscribers on the list. > > If more that 125 subscribers email me directly at, > DRiffe@primusweb.com and tell me that this policy > > is NOT fair and reasonable > > then I will open the policy to general discussion. Now this is > important - DO NOT EMAIL ME IF YOU AGREE. I certainly do not want my > email mailbox filling up with 'right-ons' . > > Hopefully this will be the end of the book discussion... > > One more thing. I do not consider the posting as 'spam' at any > stretch of the practice. It is not even close. I encourage you not > to label any posting that you are not in agreement with as spam. > Neither to I support the right to spam. I regularly remove spam and > spammers from the list. > > Hey this is great, make up the rules as you go... Only if you could > do this with our tax returns. > > Dana Riffe > DRiffe@primusweb.com > B530 List Mgr.