<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> The listowners would like to remind everyone of our policy against self-promotion on the CELIAC List. We encourage (and depend) upon our subscribers reporting their candid views of products and services available to the Celiac community. However, out of deference to the free telecommunications services donated to us by St. Johns University, a non-profit entity, it has always been our policy that members should not use our List as a place to advertise for their own entities. We are revising slightly the paragraph on this subject in our welcome message to make it clear that this applies not only to commercial entities, but to other forms of self-promotion: 2. This list is not a free forum for company/organization ads or other forms of self-promotion. The interpretation of this "rule" is not an easy matter in the celiac field, where so much of what we discuss is by necessity oriented around commercial brand names or the many excellent support organizations. The important distinction is to AVOID SELF-PROMOTION of products or services. If an unaffiliated list subscriber wants to write "Company X has an excellent GF muffin", that is perfectly OK....that is just the type of information this list is set up to distribute. But employees of companies should not openly promote their own products, and support group leaders should not openly promote any of their group's products or services that have a cost associated with them. As an example of how we would draw the line on this topic, if a member of a celiac support group wrote about how they felt the group provided excellent services, we would consider this useful information for fellow celiacs, similar to a customer of a GF food company writing about their products. If an officer of the same group wrote and said the same thing, we would consider that self-promotion, similiar to a salesperson or owner of a GF food company promoting their own products. Considering the nearly 1400 subscribers and the List's 19-month existence, this has almost never been a problem. We thank everyone for your prior help, and encourage you to continue sharing your experiences, good and bad, with products and services for Celiacs. Mike Jones <[log in to unmask]> for the Listowners