Of course, and I'm sure we all understand and sympathize. we amateurs sometimes get overly enthused, so forgive us. It's that season. Shirley Meneice Mary Sue Ittner wrote: > Dear All, > > Since there have been a couple of private questions and now the message > from Dave Fenwick perhaps I need to clarify. Some of our newer members > may be puzzled. Our pbs list and pbs wiki are hosted by ibiblio.org, a > group based at the University of North Carolina. They make space > available to non commercial group and are very supportive of information > sharing. We don't pay for this service as we are not a commercial group. > If members of our group start advertising what they are selling to this > group we could be in trouble and lose what we have. > > This does not mean we cannot share resources and tell each other about > sources of seed and bulbs that we like. We have had topics of the week > on favorites in the past. This is information sharing and quite > acceptable. Feel free to do this all you want. I think it is great to > support some of our list members in this way. But if someone mentions > they are looking for something and you are selling it, please contact > that person privately and tell them instead of communicating on this list. > > I hope this explains my comments earlier. From my stand point and I > suppose that I have a bigger stake than most because of the time I have > put into it, losing the list and the wiki would be a very unhappy event. > > Mary Sue > > PBS List Administrator, Wiki Worker, TOW Coordinator (Whew!) > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > . >