Re: Policy on business announcements

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Thanks, Pam. This sounds perfect. I am one who appreciates knowing about ANY resources- doctors, nutritionists, etc. etc.Also, thanks for your calm, measured response.Caryn GottfriedOn Apr 24, 2009, at 12:02 AM, Pam Newbury wrote:Thanks everyone for your responses. As the topic of non-food related celiac business comes up occasionally, my purpose here is broader than just this one situation, so I appreciate your patience with this discussion. I am hoping to come up with a compromise on this issue that will work for everyone on the list.Reading through your posts, I see that most have no problem or would like the information but a few strongly object, so clearly we won’t be able to please all of the members all of the time, but I believe we can find a middle ground that will get us through. We have already established that members wish this list to focus on local events and resources. I propose is that local businesses that serve the celiac community but do not directly involve food (doctors, therapists, nutritionists, consultants, etc.) may post a brief, one-time announcement about their service. They may also upload a file (no autosend) to the homepage with more information about the service. The post can reference the file. In this way, people who wish to know about the service will have the opportunity to know of its availability but those who don’t will only have to suffer one brief notice. So far we haven’t been inundated with businesses advertising their services, so I don’t expect floods of such notices. However, if we do start to get numerous announcements of this sort we can change the policy. As always, if a list member uses any celiac-related service and wishes to let others know of their experience, that is acceptable.If there is anyone who wishes to discuss this further, I would ask you to respond to me personally rather than to the list. In this way we can hash out the details without involving those who feel done with this topic.Pam NewburyModeratorpknewburyearthlink (DOT) net