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As someone who occasionally (too often) got into trouble with Dean, I not
read this every month (sorry) so I just want to make clear in my mind what
has changed. This is because when BPCS vendors contact me, I often
encourage them to join BPCS_L, in hopes they can make a positive
contribution to the community, and I not want to be telling them a
misconception.
It used to be that BPCS vendors were allowed to make monthly postings that
were not in answer to a question: a new product or service for BPCS, such
as a BPCS users conference, but only one such posting a month. It would
now seem that some of that stuff is not explicitly allowed any more?
A recent old rule
Vendor postings are prohibited unless they pertain to a specific question or
are related to a new product or service for BPCS users. Job postings will be
allowed unless the poster reaches an "annoyance level" or posts jobs
unrelated to BPCS. Said "annoyance level" will be a threshold of one posting
per month.
New phraseology
| Advertising products, repeated postings, etc, are strictly prohibited.
I am just checking my understanding is correct.
This means that job postings, or some update about some service like
www.bpcsjobz are not allowed unless in answer to a relevant question.
This means that vendors no longer permitted to do up to ONE monthly posting
of some new product or service they have for BPCS, or a significant
enhancement to an existing BPCS add-on, or some BPCS education or
documentation, such as a new BPCS manual or newsletter, but they may
mention what they have in reply to a relevant question.
This means that announcing a user conference may be prohibited if vendor
sponsored but Ok if a user asks about it.
If my understanding is correct, I would ask that you reconsider BPCS user
group meeting announcements as an exception to the rule, where organizers
would be allowed to announce that they exist, and how to get to their
meetings, without having to wait until someone asks a relevant
question. This is because there are not that many such conferences.
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Al Macintyre http://www.ryze.com/go/Al9Mac
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