*** ADMIN question of clarification

[Al Mac <macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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