On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, James Dorn wrote: > Isn't this a little bit out of place and should go elsewhere. Do you think that the list guidelines are out of place? My job as the listowner is to keep some kind of control. I have nine years of experience of running international mailing lists, and please, do believe that it is important to weed advertising out immediately. I have previously responded to this person privately but it seems to have no effect. On previous occasions of blatant advertising the list suffered a significant loss of subscribers because of junk-mail not related with research. The list was originally started as a researchers' list but it seems to have been swifting towards forest policy more and more year after year. I have not wanted cencorship on the topics but I do restrict advertising. There has been no critisim against the guidelines so far. During recent years I have requested a discussion twice to have a separate list for forest policy, but so far a small majority of the respondees have wanted to have a single list. It seems that another request is needed again. However, it seems now that I will start a separate list for forest-reseach and keep this list as the forest-policy list. Any comments on this? > his ""insight"", I teach Ecology on the university level, and firmly > believe that this "Mother" earth must be managed to survive, especially > the one's who believe it should just "do it's own thing" My message was independent of the content of Mr. Doyle's message I hoped that this would have been conveyed in my message. I was only against the advertising section. If he would have left out the advertising part and just put out excerpts of his book, I most obviously would not have responded at all. Yours sincerely, Jarmo Saarikko, the listowner <forest-request@listserv.funet.fi> Finnish Forest Research Institute METLA Phone: +358-9-85705234 Helsinki Research Centre Fax: +358-9-625308 Unioninkatu 40 A E-mail: Jarmo.Saarikko@metla.fi FIN-00170 HELSINKI, Finland URL: http://www.metla.fi/pp/JSaa/
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