Hi Gary.
I think you should re-think permitting these commerical announcements on the
mail list no matter how well meaning they may be.
I disagree. These messages are very much ontopic. I think a lot of
open source/free software types
see commericial to be in the same league as proprietary. I don't know
if you do (and it is your
progative if you do), but I know I don't. We've actually already had a
thread about this in the past,
and it was decided by consensus I believe that these announcements are
informational and not unwelcome.
The subjects are usually pretty descriptive of the content, so if you
don't want to read them I don't think it
will be that hard for you to single them out for deletion.
--Ray