What you think as spam saves me and mine loadsamoney!

As someone mentioned, your post was borderline. Perhaps it would have been better if you had replied to someone interested in LPG conversion. This group should not be stuffed by all kinds of offerings, imagine where this could lead to. However, references are often provided for particular solutions, e.g. I recently posted a supplier URL for DI cassettes. I have used this supplier in the past, but have no commercial interest.

Now LPG. I understand that there are certain risks involved and you would expect the operator to be highly skilled and member of professional bodies and associations. Secondly, turbo engines need to get rid of excessive heat and LPG combustion operates at a higher temperatures. 'No power loss' is an optimistic statement, but that is perhaps not the reason for converting to LPG. The decision will basically depend on your annual mileage, there must be a threshold quite high mileage for considering LPG.

I'll give you an example. Let's say a regular participant in this _discussion group_ has, say, an extra taillight to get rid of. osts it here. _Not spam_.

Now, let's say someone posts a message about their business to a group they haven't noticably participated in in the past. That's spam. It'd be one thing if you were contributing to the group, but this post was strictly _exploiting_ the group as a free advertising outlet, which it is not.

As far as topic, a lot of ads could be considered to be on-topic, yet if that was the only criteria we'd be flooded with every vaguely Saab-ish ad people could think of (which yours is an example of), and the whole point of finding the discussions in amidst the commercials would be lost.

So then add a tag in your .sig file, and if you're actually participating your businses will get positive exposure by the quality of your posts. Laura designs webpages, I don't need that right now but if I ever do, I'll check out her site because of her consistantly useful and interesting comments here. And so on.

Great, so participate in the group or not, your choice. But don't use it as a drive-by spam recipient. A lot of people make buying decisions based on exactly that behavior.

Dave Hinz