Salut/Hi Dave Gimbel,

le/on Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:24:23 -0500, tu disais/you said:-

>Sorry about that, but I was responding to a question.

Indeed, and if you read my reply to Jim, you'll have seen that my comment to
you was more in the way of a gentle warning.

>while checking your signature on your post to me I came across a link to
>your commercial enterprise (bed and breakfast) including the price for a
>night's stay.

No, my sig does NOT give the price of a night's stay. Maybe I should, given
the excellent value for money. How many B&Bs do YOU know at ‚¬36 for two
including breakfast, and with full en suite facilities?

>Must say it's one way of sneaking commercial posts onto the NG using the
>back door approach.

You are entirely entitled to your opinion, of course. And for many years my
sig was quite different - I invite you to use Google Groups to search for
any pre- jan 2004 posts from me. However, after being reproached by many
readers here and in other NGs for NOT providing a link to my B&B, I finally
decided to do so. The sort of comment was "I heard from xxx you run a B&B, I
_wish_ I'd known because I've just come back from France". And so on. Given
that the guidelines specifically permit the use of a (commercial) website
address in the signature, I felt that I could not be said to be in
contravention.


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