Jarmo Saarikko (METLA) wrote: > > 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/ I think you do a fine job with the list, I understand your intent and hope that you did not take it otherwise. Advertising is out of place, I don't mind an abstract about a book, whether it is good or bad, but this man had a good number of messages with the same advertising content. Anywhich way, what is deeper ecology and ecological spirituality, am I missing something. Keep up the good work, having two lists is a lot of work, from the short time that I have been on the list it is not as abused as some. Jimmy Dorn
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