Rena, Please be careful in making generalizations. I am a merchant here and a subscriber at PWFW and I have NEVER complained about PWFW announcements in the Poser forum. I'm not amerchant to make lots of money - more because I could not afford the bandwidth to gvie anyway certain things so rather than not make them available at all - I've put them in the MP. What money I make goes to paying for bandwidth so that I can host some freestuff , subscriptions to sites like PWFW and buying stuff from other people. I too work a fulltime day job and also help take care of my aging parents and my 2 year old nephew. I like seeing announcements from PWFW and other places and I also like seeing merchant announcements. Both are interesting and informative and provide me with information I want. I think it is silly to try to restrict all posts having to do with any monetary transations to a specific forum. Announcements about Poser products belong in the poser forum. IF people object to seeing them they, having a radio button to label them as adverts is a much better solution than quarantining them off where only the experienced people know where to look for them. Daio

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