Dear Bill, As an academic with commercial connections, I have found that it works if you do either of two things: Invite the interested parties to request you reply with a file attached to their responding email, or simply send an attached file in the original mailout. Most people favour the first, as there are lots of people who resent the attachment file in the primary mailouts. In the second case, from the marketing viewpoint... the problem is adding enough detail (without over-sell) in the List message to motivate the target persons to request the file, yet not enough to alienate the set of people who are anti-commercial Hope this helps -----Original Message----- From: Bill Throndset [SMTP:bthrondset@rigelinc.com] Sent: Thursday, December 31, 1998 1:40 PM To: Cytometry Mailing List Subject: commercial announcements Personally, I usually don't mind the commercial comments, but there have been a few that seem to have crossed the line. I would suggest requiring a response in which a company directs readers to products from their company as a solution to a specific cytometry related problem to include (parenthetically) a warning such as "propaganda" or "commercial" or "advertisement" with the subject line of their response. For example; <bold>Subject: re CD34 staining (commercial). </bold>For a message from a company which is not a response for help, but more directly an advertisement, the subject line of the email would also include "propaganda," or "commercial" or "advertisement." In this case, most of us could happily delete the message before reading it! Maybe it's just me, but I like the paradox of a salesperson typing "propaganda" as the subject of a listserver posting. -------------- bill throndset bthrondset@rigel.com Rigel, Incorporated 408-617-8106
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