Nuxx:C1e7d5f2-3b7d-48bc-8361-61494ae15faa@z7g2000vbh.googlegroups.com

Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!z7g2000vbh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Pre-RFD: uk.rec.cycling.moderated Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 13:07:49 -0700 (PDT) References: <2lc*4xWHs@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>   <787i78F1k91ivU1@mid.individual.net>  <7eca48b8-a522-4974-962a-9b71243fe904@s38g2000prg.googlegroups.com> Lines: 38 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.251.27 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1243627669 20339 127.0.0.1 (29 May 2009 20:07:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 20:07:49 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z7g2000vbh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.251.27; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3025 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:705376

On May 28, 11:32=A0pm, James  wrote: > On May 28, 11:45=A0pm, Ian Jackson  > wrote: > > > > > In article <787i78F1k91i...@mid.individual.net>, > > Mark McNeill =A0 wrote: > > > >At present there are very occasional FS notices, which commonly point = to > > >individual's private sales or Ebay auctions. =A0In my opinion these ca= n do > > >more good than harm, and I hope the advertising policy will allow for > > >them. Ads for commercial enterprises or OT items such as camper vans > > >etc., are of course another matter entirely. > > > OK. =A0How about: > > > =A0Announcements of events are permitted at the moderators' discretion. > > =A0Commercial advertising of products and services is not permitted. > > > This leaves the private ads up to the moderators, but implies that > > they're acceptable. > > I think relevant commercial advertising should be allowed, but only at > a moderate level. > > IMO trying to be too prescriptive just invites armchair lawyering over > the definition of "is" or "commercial". Maybe best to just explicitly > state that it is up to the judgment of the moderators.

There is a very clear difference between the kind of untargetted rubbish that most of us know as "spam", and an enterprising person posting here about some bike-related invention that they're trying to sell. Unlike more-or-less *everything* else, I'm happy to leave determining that difference to the discretion of the moderators, without much in the way of "rules" being necessary.