SEELANGS Administrivia - Advertising on SEELANGS

[Alex Rudd]

Dear SEELANGS list members,

In recent months there have been a handful of messages posted to
SEELANGS that violate our guideline governing advertising on the list.
 Specifically, all of the offending messages, which advertised the
availability of a new publication, included in them the sale prices of
the publications.  As a reminder, here is the guideline as it appears
in the Welcome message sent to all new subscribers:

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***** ADVERTISING ON SEELANGS *****

Since only subscribers have the ability to post to SEELANGS,
no outside entity will post advertisements directly to the
list.  From time to time the list owner receives requests
from vendors of Slavic-related merchandise to distribute
information about that merchandise to the list membership.
If the list owner determines that the information may be of
interest, he may forward it to the list if the vendor complies
with the following conditions:

The advertisement will:

 o briefly identify the company
 o briefly describe the product(s)
 o NOT contain any price information or dollar amounts
 o request that any interested parties contact the vendor directly for
further information
 o contain vendor contact information
 o NOT be more than 60 lines of text

List members who wish to advertise businesses or products
in which they have a financial interest are discouraged from
doing so on SEELANGS if the businesses or products have
nothing to do with Slavic languages or literature.  If they
do have something to do with Slavic languages or literature,
list members are asked to comply with the above guideline.

NOTE:  The above guideline regarding advertising on SEELANGS
does not apply to seminar and conference announcements.
Such announcements may contain dollar amounts and, due to the
occasional inclusion of forms, may exceed 60 lines of text.  If
posting an announcement or including a form, please be sure to
insert your own “Reply-To:” tag in your out-going mail header or
write the list owners for assistance if you do not know how that
is accomplished.

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SEELANGS is administered using the LISTSERV server at the University
of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, which is a public, taxpayer-funded
institution.  The UA Office of Information Technologies sets the
policies that affect the use of shared UA network resources, such as
LISTSERV.  One of those policies prohibits "using computer or network
services for commercial purposes or for profit."  We are tremendously
fortunate that SEELANGS has a home on the UA LISTSERV, and also that
we are able to use the UA resources (list and mail servers, archive
storage, etc.) completely free of charge.  Let's please not jeopardize
that.  As long as you keep such messages short, preferably doing
nothing more than providing a link to a web site where interested
people can find additional information, and as long as you don't list
sale prices, we should be okay.

Thanks for your future cooperation.

If it's been awhile since you read the SEELANGS Welcome message, or if
you've never read it, please do take just a few minutes to go over it
and familiarize yourself with all our list guidelines, as it seems
some of them get violated here every day (e.g., quoting excessive
amounts of original text).  To be sent a copy of the current version,
compose a new e-mail message and address it to:

LISTSERV at BAMA.UA.EDU

In the body of the e-mail put only the following single line of text:

GET SEELANGS WELCOME

and send the message.  LISTSERV will e-mail it to you.

Any questions, let me know.

Regards,

- Alex, list owner of SEELANGS
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Alex Rudd
List owner e-mail: seelangs-request at bama.ua.edu
Personal e-mail: Alex.Rudd at gmail.com
http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/
Any opinion expressed above is not necessarily shared by my employers.

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