George Mason University has bought a Vocabula Review site license

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The repeated offended could be warned -- or banned from the list. We do have SOME sort of a moderator.
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From: Laurence Horn
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At 3:17 PM +0000 11/5/10, Michael Quinion wrote:
>  > George Mason University has bought a Vocabula Review site license.
>
>What relevance, other than commercial puffery, does this have to do with
>the ADS? Does the Society now allow advertising on this list?
>
I don't think "allow" really applies here, since the list is
unmoderated.  I believe Mr. Fiske is the only offender (albeit a
regular one) of the implicit ban on commercial puffery.

LH

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