I hesitate to add more to this, but I did look up the mailing list policy
statement as Peter Verheyen suggested
(http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7015/policy/mlistpol.html) and found:
5.The mailing list may not be used to advertise or solicit commercial
activities or services.
I also looked on the Web4Lib site, another Berkeley run list
(http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/) and found in their policy:
2.Advertisements are not appropriate. However, a simple statement that
offers a way to follow-up for more information on a service or product is
tolerated if it accompanies a substantive message discussing a subject
appropriate to the list. Announcements of conferences, workshops, and new
publications appropriate to the topic of the list are allowed.
My question, and perhaps someone from Berkeley is best equipped to answer,
is if this policy is inflexible. If it is, then that is that. If it is not
and exceptions may be made under certain circumstances, could a case be
made for catalogue or list announcements?
Jeffrey A. Barr
Curator of Rare Books
Smathers Library East
PO Box 117007
University of Florida Libraries
Gainesville, FL 32611
(352) 392-9075 ext. 309
jefbarr@ufl.edu
http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/rarebook/rarebook.html