[Premium-Rx] Proposed Policy Change for the Premium-Rx List

[Ben Wallace]

I think the proposed changes are reasonable.  I agree.......I do not think 
that announcements regarding eBay, other auctions, newsgroups, or third 
party referrals should be allowed.  I have seen a few reflectors become 
dominated by individuals who will take advantage of loopholes or lenience 
in the group rules.

Ben Wallace
WB8HUR




At 08:05 AM 11/20/03, Greg W. Bailey wrote:
>
>Dear Fellow Members:
>
>We continue to receive inquiries from our membership regarding the List's 
>policy on the selling and buying of items which relate to 
>Premium-Receivers.  The 'no selling' policy was adopted about four years 
>ago.  Its justification at that time was to 'force' the submitted subject 
>material to be related to technical information, NOT degenerate into a 
>swap-meet, flea-market, SPAM, infested exchange.
>
>About two years ago we started to relax the policy by allowing members to 
>'hint' that they are interested in selling or buying an item.  As a result 
>of this, we have seen some items being offered on the List, specifically, 
>a number of receivers, some manuals, cooling fans, a source for coax 
>connectors, etc.   We have not received any complaints from the membership 
>for the limited selling that has taken place thus far.
>
>Given this, Jan and I would like to propose a change in the List's 
>policy.  We propose to allow announcements of buying and selling with the 
>following guidelines:
>
>     1. All items must be directly related to the subject of 
> Premium-Rx.  Garden variety parts, boatanchors, etc., are not acceptable.
>
>     2. Announcements will be limited to personal items and shall not 
> encompass commerical sales or services.  Frequent posting by one 
> individual will be taken to be commercial.
>
>     3. The SUBJECT LINE of such announcements must start with the 
> letters  "FS"  (for sale) or "WTB" (want to buy).   This will allow 
> members NOT interested in such posts to set their internet software 
> filters to automatically delete all such postings.
>
>     Example:  Subject line:  FS  Harris 590 Lo Freq Audio Filter, ....... 
> OR ....... WTB  Harris 590 Lo Freq Audio Filter.
>
>     4. Announcements regarding eBay, other auctions, items from other 
> newsgroups or lists, or any other third party postings are not permitted.
>___________
>
>Your comments regarding this possible policy change are welcome -
>
>Greg and Jan
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