Resources Yes, Commercials No
Mary Sue Ittner (Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:28:41 PST)

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!)