All good points shawn. An obvious flagrant ad is an ad, but 50% of the posts on this forum are to do with finding/getting/trading material, that's kinda the whole point of the hobby!
I fully support Art's idea, but to me it must be restricted to clear and obvious adverts, getting banned for posting a wanted ad, or referring to material bought from a dealer, will just result in no-one being left here! If you flick through a magazine, it is usually obvious which is an ad, and which is an article, so maybe it will pan out through common sense, I guess we will see, the metlist with either prosper or fail! As you rightly say, what's actually wrong with meteorite Ads anyway? I'd rather see 10 ads for meteoritic material than one more bl**dy Proud Tom diatribe!! Regards, Mark -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shawn Alan Sent: 01 April 2014 05:28 To: Ruben Garcia; Meteorite Central Subject: [meteorite-list] New paid Ad program for the mailing list - starts 4/7/2014 Ruben and Lister You do bring up a good point Ruben. That is a grey area and I have seen a few members do it and say look at this new meteorite I have and when you go to there website they have items listed for sale of that new fall or meteorite. Also, I have seen members say well if you want to see a good sample of this meteorite you can look at my website and they give a link to there website which is a dealer website in meteorite posts. To me that seems like advertising. I have also seen when people are talking about thin sections and some people say, hey if you want to see some good sample go to my dealer website. I see that happen a lot and think if ads are going to be charged on here, that also should be constituted as an AD? What about Trades? is that an AD or wanted post and someone posts their website? One other point I like to ask, you say less AD will be better for dealers and list members? Well I didn't know the AD on here were a big problem. I thought the arguing and the nonsensical topics was disrupting the website. Also $8 an AD to the main deals is nothing, but for the ones that struggle with money wont be able to pay that and post an AD. I guess it will be better for some dealers, because there will be less competition advertising on here. Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 ebay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633nyc/m.html Meteoritefalls.com ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
