[Rockhounds] [ADMIN] Rockhounds Website Pee Ess

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

Kris,

An occasional AD from a regular contributor has never been a problem 
for me, and I have never had a problem with useful contributions that 
have a reasonable couple, to few, lines signature. Subtle promotion is 
cool if you are adding to the discussion. That is my 2 cents.

Kreigh




On Sunday, Mar 15, 2009, at 23:05 America/Detroit, Kris Rowe wrote:

> Hi Julie,
>               I second Don's post. I'm sticking to one AD post per 
> month,
> and will be paying more attention to accepted style points.
> On clarification, is it still acceptable to add a Blog/Gallery link at 
> the
> end of my posts? Inquiring minds want to know!  };)
>
> Be sure and catch up on your sleep!
>
> Kris
>
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Julie Siebel <
> julie at pandemoniumgraphics.com> wrote:
>
>> Excuse the grammar in that post; we housesat for someone last night 
>> with 5
>> big dogs to go along with our 2 big dogs and I didn't get much sleep. 
>> Just
>> now getting coffee and re-read that and went "Yikes!"
>>
>> J.
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julie Siebel" <
>> julie at pandemoniumgraphics.com>
>> To: "Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem 
>> collectors"
>> <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 12:29 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] [ADMIN] About the rockhounds website.
>>
>>
>>  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>
>>> To: "Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem 
>>> collectors"
>>> <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
>>> 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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