Hi all This has been our practice in the past. We are scheduled for a Board of Directors meeting in the coming weeks and I will request an agenda item on the commercial issue. Anyone with ideas of how to mange can forward their responses to me at: arnold140@verizon.net Please not to the entire list Thank you Arnold Sent from the all new AOL app for iOS On Saturday, August 2, 2025, 5:20 PM, Robert Lauf via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: The AOS has ads from commercial vendors in their monthly mag and those ads are a significant source of revenue for them. They also publish a separate book or directory of vendors by state, in which I assume vendors need to pay to be included. That doesn't raise any red flags with the IRS. In the past I recall at least once and probably more, when a commercial bulb nursery put an announcement on our list saying their new catalog is available on their web site. That's a bit more "commercial" than one member asking if anyone knows a source of something and another completely disinterested member providing a source they know about. Either seems pretty harmless to me. But we wouldn't want someone literally pasting their catalog onto the list serve. Maybe the Board can think about these things and offer some official guidance as to what is OK and what isn't. Surely our community shouldn't keep members from telling one another where they got interesting plants. Considering all the exposure we give to a vendor through a group order, all this seems mild in comparison, at least to me. Bob Zone 7 waiting for rain to move in _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://… _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…