On-list advertisements/long sigs

[Mark L. Chang]

auditude at cox.net wrote:

> Whenever I get a notice of a new ad that has a reference to an Ebay
> auction, I wish there was something I could click that would somehow
> help enforce the no Ebay link thing.  (Even tho' if I'm interested in
> the item I'll check it out on Ebay.)  I just think it's discourteous
> to put an ad up like this if it is expressly forbidden.
> 
> Can't a filter be put on the ad submission form to reject any ads
> that have the word Ebay in them, or something like that?
> 
> They get posted quite a bit.

I don't like filtering ads. Also, I don't like emailing every offending 
ad. On the flip side, the frequency of offending ads has dropped off 
pretty good since I put in more steps to submitting an ad.

But, I have my watchers, and they let me know when an ebay ad goes to 
press and they forward it to me. Now, I don't want everyone doing this, 
but if you want to join the 'pack', just shoot me an email.

For everyone else, well, if you see an ebay ad, just email the poster 
directly (reply to the ad) letting them know, gently, that ebay/referral 
ads are not allowed. When they get 50 responses to their ad, I'm sure 
they'll get the message.

Mark