Daniel,
I just read all of your messages, AND the message posted to you by Anne Brown.
I don't want to be guilty of overkill on sending another message, but I felt
that possibly this bears reiterating.
You sent Anne a message saying that you thought that perhaps you had stepped
over a line of etiquette by posting the messages. Whether or not this was your
intention, you have just made a very large number of people angry that they
wasted their Compuserve dollars downloading and reading many copies of
virtually identical messages. As Anne suggested, e-mail is the appropriate
method to DIRECTLY address friends and clients to whom you want to pass on a
message of savings. A SINGLE general message advising of a library *.TXT file
posted by you, in which you have details of specific items and prices is also
appropriate. As Anne also suggested, read AD_GUIDE.TXT in the Information
Library which contains the rules for vendors on line.
And don't be surprised if you receive a few more angry responses (as well as
the sales revenues that you were hoping to generate in the first place <g>)
Kate Pike