"Mike Turco" wrote

There are two kinds of people on
this group: available consultants and
potential customers. I would love to
come to this group and say, "HEY
EVERYONE I CAN FIX IT HIRE
ME!!!!". I just think that's inappro-
priate for this group.

That is in accord with USENET guidelines and the FAQ for this newsgroup.

I've wanted, for some time, to add a
sig line to my posts and use these
groups more frequently in hopes of
getting the word out, but I don't. I'm
sure others feel the same way. Usenet,
especially these tech groups, is not
a place where its acceptable to hock
your wares.

The people in this newsgroup, except some who'd gripe about anything and
troll when they aren't griping, have never objected to posters including a
moderate amount of contact information in a SIG (there's no absolute limit,
but 4 lines doesn't seem to be objectionable in most newsgroups).

Where to advertise? How to get the
word out on what you do? That's off-
topic to this group. To answer that
question I would suggest people try the
newsgroup misc.business.marketing.
moderated, misc.business.consulting or
alt.computer.consultants.moderated.
(FWIW, I moderate two of those
three groups.)

Nor, have the people here (same exceptions) objected to a reference to a
commercial product when it is a specific and valid answer to a legitimate
question. Because so many people here do contract work for pay, and because
that isn't a specific answer to a question, many "non-gripers" have
complained about Steve's "I can help you for pay" responses.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP