Re: Recent MRR post
RDUDLEY (rdudley@ARSERRC.Gov)
Tue, 25 Nov 1997 16:16:18 -0400 (EDT)
>Dear AMMRL members,
>
> As both a member of the AMMRL Steering Committee and as a member of
>AMMRL, I would like to comment on the recent post from MRR. The purpose of
>this mailing list is to provide useful information to lab managers that
>they are not likely to obtain elsewhere. Obviously, advertising is
>completely inappropriate here since we obtain plenty of it elsewhere. We
>welcome the participation of members from companies who provide products to
>the NMR community because they often have information that isn't otherwise
>readily available. Of course, this sometimes puts them in the position of
>the appearance of advertising. But, posts like the recent MRR
>advertisement are obvious. It is impossible to prevent offenses to the no
>advertising policy. The steering committee occasionally has contacted
>various companies that seemed to overstep the bounds. Most companies
>either have never sent advertising or we only have had to ask them once.
>MRR, on the other hand, has been asked on several previous occasions to
>apply good taste and good sense to their decisions about what to post. If
>you as a member are concerned about not allowing this list to degenerate to
>yet another forum for advertising, perhaps you could send a message to MRR
>directly asking them to refrain from using this list in that way. The web
>site referred to in the MRR post (which oddly enough does not contain the
>list of probes for sale) lists the following email address: webmaster@mrr.com
>
> I would like to express at least my appreciation to those companies who
>choose not to advertise on this list. I realize that it may be difficult
>at times for them to refrain from doing so.
>
>
>Dr. Jane Strouse
AMMRL Members,
The recent posting from MRR was pretty harmless, I just deleted it and went on
with reading the rest of the mail. The advertisement contained the e-mail
address of the sender and each individual who was offended by the advertisement
could have contacted that individual. I believe that most companies respect the
AMMRL policy, though occasionally we do get something that looks like
advertising. Again everyone has a delete key and such messages are readily
deleted. We are fortunately not cursed with some of the problems that some of
the other list that I am on are suffering from. One list has gone to being a
moderated list because of some spam and another list does not allow individual's
subscribed to the list to post messages. This is not easily done and has turned
out to be a bit of a pain in the ...
The best action is two pronged. The first is to contact the individual posting
the advertisement and lodge your complaint. The second is to inform the list
that you did not think the posting was appropriate. I think that the steering
committee has done an excellent job and that by and large the companies have
show a great deal of restraint.
Bob Dudley
rdudley@arserrc.gov
The opinions are strictly my own.