EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

> I too find it puzzling why there is this gatekeeper function when 
> there are half a dozen companies interested in doing this?
> Unless they work for Apple or another interested party, there's 
> really no reason to "block" this as it benefits everyone, users, 
> manufacturer and the community at large.

Our user group lists exist for members to help eachother with Logic, 
EXS24, etc. They are not primarily meant to be marketing tools for 
companies, even kind companies who want to give our members 
discounts. Without some level of moderation I'm afraid all the 
advertisements would dillute our lists. 

We do still allow people to post about such offers. The long-standing 
policy of the EXS list is a company can post special offers/deals 
once every 60 days. There have been quite a few [OT] posts to the LUG 
about other group buys going on as well. 

> > > I was the one who suggested to have the group buy on the LUG. I
> > > contacted Post Musical Instrument and the company was pleased to
> > > cooperate.
> > > But the LUG moderators would not let us do so because they
> > > had 'their own other groupbuys' in mind...
> > > They even rejected my mails to the forum about this issue.
> > > One day later the Old Lady started on the Northern Sounds forum.
> >
> > I find it *very* puzzling why the LUG moderators don't allow 
> > these kind of announcements.  I would have thought it was in 
> > all Logic users' interests to know about them...

We did not reject the announcement about the group buy started on the 
Northern Sounds forum. I did reject some posts from people suggesting 
the LUG did a group buy for the Old Lady, as Michael Post had already 
contacted us directly. Once he started the group buy an [OT] 
announcement of it was allowed on the LUG and there was quite a bit 
of talk about it here. 

We were unable to do a group buy with Michael in that case as we had 
very little notice, and already had worked out a group buy with 
Sonalksis in December. After much discussion we agreed to continue 
our 5 year tradition of only occasionally having group buys, not 
having them non-stop year round, to both keep our lists focuses on 
what they are truly meant for, and to also give members time to 
recover financially between group buys to give more people a chance 
to participate.

Best wishes
Jeremy
http://logic-users.org