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To: Smiling Bob who wrote (5033)	12/4/2002 8:21:03 PM
From: (Bob) Zumbrunnen	Respond to of 19256

I was "warned" to discontinue including my site or email address in my posts or I'd face another termination It's debatable whether or not that implication was there. But based on the PM you cited, your comment above is at best a stretching of the truth. The implication could've just as easily been that your account would be suspended. You never did answer my question about altering of your posts. I say you are lying about it. Why, I don't know, but my guess is to make it seem that the contents of your posts were far more important than they really were. Now, do you know the difference between a post and a thread header? I happen to remember having this discussion with higher-ups at SI and it was decided that so long as a thread's entire purpose wasn't to gain free advertising for a site (SI does and always has sold advertising and has been averse to it being taken for free), then links to the author's own site were allowable. Anthony's was far from being the only thread with a link to his own site in it. He started his thread before he even had a site. I remember the situation that resulted in the discussion with the higher-ups. I'd asked Tim Luke to take something similar out of his own thread header, he showed me other threads with similar links, I told him he was right and I'd talk to my superiors for a policy change, which we all agreed to, making thread headers fair game as long as the entire purpose wasn't advertising. Of course, profiles have always been fair game. Apparently I told you that you could link to your site in yours. Not sure why that would piss you off so much. The line I typically used when someone would frequently link to their site in their messages was something like "Feel free to advertise in your profile as much as you like. Make your whole profile a billboard for your site for all I care. Then just be a compelling enough poster that people will check out your profile. Don't advertise directly in your posts." I don't know why you feel so important or privileged that you should've been allowed to advertise your site in your messages, but nobody was allowed to. You weren't singled out for that. I sent many such messages to many people. The way in which you were singled out, though, is that it's entirely possible that you were the only person with a previously-terminated account to have done so and only been warned.