[eeyore]

I understand what you say stu and will obviously abide by the new rules but my opinion is that there is a third way - we could ban spam and overt advertising but still allow supplier recommendations from established members as there is a difference between a supplier posting to recomend themselves and a member posting to reccomend someone who has given good service / price /deal

My opinion is that recommendations are not advertsising they are advice to other members which is a large part of what the forum is for - if the complainers wish to be recomended in the same way they would then only have to offer the same excellent service as the people who have been previously reccomended. - still I guess the complainers(whoever they are) will reap what they sow as now even if they give one of us a keen deal and outstanding service then we wont be able to reccomend them to anyone else.

I am still suprised about the PM issue though - I cant see how wab would be anymore liable for what a member writes in pm than google are for what someone writes in their google mail

But at the end of the day I recognise that this is only my opinion and it is not for me to make the rules, and although I might do it differently if it were , in this as in every other case I support stu's decision 100%