Susan What brilliant marketing there. I'm truly in awe! <grin>
Seriously though of course, you're right. It is a difficult line... For example, someone may ask 'I need to do [blah]'. I may respond, 'Well, there is a free utility you can download from my website that does [blah]'. Now if the utility is free, and I'm answering a question, and I'm not looking to profit, I'm not marketing. But visiting the website necessarily means being confronted by other stuff that isn't free. And what about those who don't want to spend any money, don't want to see any ads, but do want free stuff? (Hey now, THAT sounds like the MV community...) So I would put my 2c on - posts that are primarily intended to be adverts for products should be so marked. Where they are primarily intended to offer assistance - like Tony's in this case - we should leave it up to the conscience of the poster. After all, having [AD] is not a slur - some people might even *miss* the advert otherwise... Brian ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
