Policy on business announcements

[Guest guest]

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 Newbury

Moderator

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