Please choose from the list or suggest other options in a post of your own.

I’d like to vote for both as long as the announcements are
likely to be of interest to more SWET members than the poster alone and
or one or two people.

I second Holly’s comment in that I voted “Yes to both” assuming that any announcements from other organizations would be related to writing, editing and translating, with the caveat she mentions. Unrelated announcements, and even repeated self-advertisements, don’t really belong on the SWET list, IMO. As Holly mentions, I also feel that any such announcements be aimed at the greater good or wider audience. And I’d feel comfortable with the list moderator(s) making the decision which are & which aren’t related.

Now, if spammers start getting sly and we start seeing ads or announcements like “Translation/Editing needed for new Cialis/Viagra pills” or messages announcing that work is needed on some “URGENT documents from the National Bank of Dubai”, then I think we might need to reconsider this policy.

But until then, I myself wouldn’t mind seeing such announcements, again as long as they’re pretty closely related to what we’re all here for.