No, just helpful. I see your point.
"Diana Curtis" wrote in message
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Do *you* consider it advertising? Thats the point of my rant. We cant stop
people from posting. We can only set standards and ask people to hold
themselves to them. Each of us is responsible only for our own actions, so
I
am asking us to each consider our posts in terms of the Quilt Lesson
analogy.
Diana

"KJ" wrote in message
news:rTdWc.214825$eM2.47152@attbi_s51...
Is it considered advertising if someone is looking for a certain fabric
and
Paul from Equilter gives a link to it??
I've never thought of that as such. His posts are never
unsolicited...they
are in response to an inquiry. I haven't been here very long, so I may
have
the wrong slant on things.
Back to the Olympics.

"Diana Curtis" wrote in message
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We all talk about this group as if it is a cyber quilting bee. It
isnt.
It
is a quilting lesson, ongoing and dynamic. They are lessons we each
pay
for.
Some pay more, some pay less, but dang it, we all pay to be here.
Picture having a quilting lesson at your local quilt store where
every
so
often a person pops into the class room and advertises something,
interupting the lessons you paid for. You'd be right to be upset. It
could
be your best friend in the world, offering to quilt for you, or a
total
stranger offering a better way of living thru pills or what have you.
Its
the same thing, an interuption.
But what about OT posts, you ask. Arent they an interruption as
well?
Yes,
when we forget to mark them as being off topic, to the paying
subscriber
to
this group, they are, for some, an unwanted interruption of what they
pay
to
come here for. Quilt lessons. When we do remember to use the OT in the
header it is as if we have excused ourselves to the little room over
there
with the coffee urn and the nummy desserts where we wont be
interupting
the
other quilters with our chatter.
We all have the right to be here. We have the right to a newsgroup
that
the majority will find useful and fun. Along with those rights comes a
serious responsibilty to police ourselves and our own posts. If we
decide
as
a group to allow people to post ads where do we draw the line? Who
gets
to
post ads and how many and how often is offensive? Do we get to pick on
people who are obviously not regular posters? Who is going to police
such
a
wishy washy policy?
Does it make more sense to make a blanket policy that advertisments
are
to
go to rec.crafts.textiles.marketplace? That is what it is for.
Rant mode over, back to quilting
Diana