As administer for nine separate RootsWeb.com mailing lists, I've noticed that just this week there have been violations of RootsWeb's Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) on two of my lists. The following is presented here for clarification of that policy. RootsWeb's AUP about commercial advertising on their mailing lists is found at http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/aup.html. The pertinent paragraph is: > "Commercial activities require permission. > RootsWeb's intent is to provide a friendly and, as much as > possible, noncommercial environment. Any activity that involves the > exchange of money requires prior permission from RootsWeb.com." Please pay particular attention to that last sentence quoted above. You must obtain *prior* approval from RootsWeb.com in order to advertise anything for sale on RootsWeb's mailing lists. (In my opinion, since all of the mailing lists I administer are gatewayed to Ancestry.com's message boards, then that policy also applies to the postings on those message boards.) Someone asked me what would be acceptable. My reply is this: give a brief description of the item but do *not* give a price. Then provide a name, email address and/or telephone number of the person to contact for further information. Nothing else! I do appreciate your understanding in this matter. I do not make up these rules. I only enforce them as part of my duties as a RootsWeb mailing list administrator. Tom Wilde Administrator for BURNEY-L, GRANTHAM-L, MCHARG-L, MNDAKOTA-L, MILNER-L, MUCKLE-L, KISSAM-L, WILDE-L and WOODHOUSE-L mailing lists.