Fellow admins, I am generally very tolerant of DNA-project-related messages placed on the message boards that I admin as long as there is no mention of a specific lab or dollar amounts, and no link for a specific testing company (so as not to fall into the commercial category). There is a message right now that does not include any of those items I look for in determining appropriateness, but it does include specific test names. Would those of you who are tolerant of rule-abiding DNA messages allow the following to stay on one of the boards you admin: <http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jQEBAIB/136> -- Thanks, Mary
Mary: When in doubt about an issue like this the best thing to do is send a message to messageboards@rootsweb.com and request an official opinion. Many admins have many different opinions, it is best to get the opinion of the persons who are in charge of of the messageboards as a whole. Shade >From: "Mary D. Taffet" <mdtaffet@mailbox.syr.edu> >Reply-To: boards-admins@rootsweb.com >To: BOARDS-ADMINS-L <BOARDS-ADMINS-L@rootsweb.com> >Subject: [BAd] Question about appropriateness of a message >Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:49:44 -0400 > >Fellow admins, > >I am generally very tolerant of DNA-project-related messages placed on >the message boards that I admin as long as there is no mention of a >specific lab or dollar amounts, and no link for a specific testing >company (so as not to fall into the commercial category). > >There is a message right now that does not include any of those items I >look for in determining appropriateness, but it does include specific >test names. Would those of you who are tolerant of rule-abiding DNA >messages allow the following to stay on one of the boards you admin: > > <http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jQEBAIB/136> > >-- Thanks, > Mary > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >BOARDS-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message
On Thursday, August 31, 2006, 12:49:44 AM, Mary wrote: M> Would those of you who are tolerant of rule-abiding DNA M> messages allow the following to stay on one of the boards you admin: Mary, I would have no problem with this at all. I cannot imagine that the tests are specific to one lab and even if they are, there is no mention of a lab/service as far as I can see and the average board user would not know of any such specific, so I'd be quite happy to let it stand. I don't see it as a commercial advert at all. -- Cheers, Anne ___________________________________________________________ The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from your Internet provider. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html