> 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.
Sorry to barge in again, but I quote once again from the welcome message I
received some years ago when I first subscribed (and recently
re-subscribed)...
"ExLibris welcomes booksellers and others to the list, but they should
recognize the broad consensus that this list should not be a locus for the
posting of want lists or items for sale. Brief announcements of sale
catalogue availability are welcome. Otherwise, the Biblio List, Interloc,
and the rec.arts.books.marketplace newsgroup are more appropriate."
That seems to be contrary to the policy you quote, Mr. Barr. Of course,
the latter is simply an expression of tolerance, not policy.
I'm done.
Greg Powers
Powers Rare Books