As both a member of the AMMRL Steering Committee and as a member of
AMMRL, I would like to comment on the recent post from MRR. The purpose of
this mailing list is to provide useful information to lab managers that
they are not likely to obtain elsewhere. Obviously, advertising is
completely inappropriate here since we obtain plenty of it elsewhere. We
welcome the participation of members from companies who provide products to
the NMR community because they often have information that isn't otherwise
readily available. Of course, this sometimes puts them in the position of
the appearance of advertising. But, posts like the recent MRR
advertisement are obvious. It is impossible to prevent offenses to the no
advertising policy. The steering committee occasionally has contacted
various companies that seemed to overstep the bounds. Most companies
either have never sent advertising or we only have had to ask them once.
MRR, on the other hand, has been asked on several previous occasions to
apply good taste and good sense to their decisions about what to post. If
you as a member are concerned about not allowing this list to degenerate to
yet another forum for advertising, perhaps you could send a message to MRR
directly asking them to refrain from using this list in that way. The web
site referred to in the MRR post (which oddly enough does not contain the
list of probes for sale) lists the following email address: webmaster@mrr.com
I would like to express at least my appreciation to those companies who
choose not to advertise on this list. I realize that it may be difficult
at times for them to refrain from doing so.
Dr. Jane Strouse
Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569
(310)-825-9841 - voice
(310)-825-0393 - FAX
strousej@chem.ucla.edu