Emulated Peripherals

My initial reaction was actually fairly difficult for me, as I know and like several of the people at Arraid. On the one hand, it's obviously on-topic as it lets others here know that there are modern drive replacements for systems we all would like to keep running. On the other hand, their products are generally well outside the price range of the home hobbyist, so not sure how much it helps us. Thus, my impression is that the post wasn't targeted at the listmembers, but rather at sales prospects the listmembers may know. Tony asked how this post was different than Bob Shannon's post about his drive replacement. Very simple - Bob wasn't posting here asking us to give the names of companies we know and have trusted relationships with, so he could call them and hard sell them his product. I'm NOT saying Bob would hard sell, or even that Arraid would hard sell (doubtful). But what about other companies posting here who may do so? So, if on-topic SPAM is allowed here as Tony requests above... guess we allow posting by crisis, and MBG, and keyways, and imsai.net, oh, and all the scrap dealers... but it's ok as long as it doesn't appear too often. Ok, let me start a spreadsheet, so I can track how often each company posts. I'll have to trace each email address on an advert, so I can tell if they're trying to post from another address. Oh, and I'll also have to call references on each company, so I know if they have a history of hardselling any references we give them... Ummm wait... I do have a day job. All sarcasm aside... If the membership at large wants to allow on-topic adverts, that's fine. But don't make it hard on ME to moderate in the future - for one example out of many - I suspect Tony's definition of "too often" (wrt adverts appearing) is different from Sellams, which is different from Jerome's, etc. Jay