[Rockhounds] [ADMIN] About the rockhounds website.

[Julie Siebel]

I can put clarifications of stuff on the website. The actual "rules" will to 
be *very* brief compared to wht they are now, so yeah, they'll probably fit 
fine in an email. I'm not sure how much control we have over the contents of 
the confirmation email (I'm assuming at least SOME, haven't looked yet(.

I've never actually joined a list where the rules were in the confirmation; 
I've hit them where they were sent in the "Welcome" email, though.

Our ad policy is pretty basic:

Include [AD] in the header. No more one ad per month. No "extra mentions" of 
your business and sales in regular list emails. You must contribute as a 
regular list member in order to post ads. You may include a link to your 
site, as a sig line, though it must include your name as well.

Pretty simple, really.

There are always exceptions but for ads, they're pretty few and far between. 
As a matter of fact, I can only think of one: If someone asks, on list, 
where to find a very specific item, e.g. the "OreRockOn DVD" or "Heulandite 
from the Rat's Nest Mine", Tim or John C. can answer ;). I'd expect a lot of 
that sort of stuff to actually be handled off list, though, perhaps with 
simply an email TO the list that says "I will contact you offlist."

(Note: Currently the rules said something to the affect of 2 per month, but 
that we prefer one per month, or something like that. For four years, 
though, everyone's pretty much stuck to once per month, so I'm making that a 
hard, fast, rule, unless I hear a really brilliant argument against that. ;)

Julie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DonH" <donhalterman at q.com>
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Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] [ADMIN] About the rockhounds website.


>
> This sounds great.  Another minor suggestion: since this is a 
> "double-confirmed opt-in" subscription, as we say in the anti-spam world, 
> the confirmation message could also include a copy of the rules in the way 
> it is sent now once the subscription is complete.  The message could say 
> "confirmation of the subscription implies that you have read and agree to 
> abide by all the rules and policies of the list as written below."  Other 
> lists do that, so it wouldn't be unique.
>
> Also, a clarification, with examples, of the ad policy.
>
> Best,
> Don
>
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