I would be very interested in consulting vendors and other commercial resources for museums on-line. I find the Internet to be a faster, more user-friendly, and more interesting way of going shopping than the combination of yellow pages and telephone book. However, I DON'T want to shop on MUSEUM-L. IMHO, this is not the appropriate place for ads. Jan-- why not consider developing your own home page on the WWW and getting it linked up to some good search engines? It's the new wave in advertising. Even non-profits are advertising this way. Prospective customers will find you. But, please, not on the list. (I like to think of this list, and others like it, as a sort of commercial-free PBS or NPR on the Internet.) Cheers. >This response to the question of advertisements on this or any other >discussion board in on the button. There are commercial spaces available on >the internet. Personal advertisements as well as virtual malls are >available. The irritation factor is the equivalent of the 10 minutes of >advertisements that preceed the feature of a rental movie video. > >>I think [list advertistment] is a bad idea. There is enough drivel on the >>Internet without >>opening the fllodgates to advertising. I get over 40 messages per day- I >>don't want you or anyone else shilling in a space that is relatively >>advertisement free. Try late night UHF TV. I am >>confident most replies you recieve regarding your query will echo mine. >> >>> >>> How does everyone on this list feel about blatant advertising? >>> > >Cordially, > >Don R. Reynolds, Natural History Museum, 900 Exposition Boulevard >Los Angeles, California 90007 >213 744 3232 voice, 213 746 2999 FAX, http://www.usc.edu/lacmnh >[log in to unmask] Lucia I. Dorsey Coordinator Arthur Ross Gallery University of Pennsylvania 220 South 34th Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6380 TEL: (215) 898-4401 FAX: (215) 573-2045