China Travel Discussion List

A great deal of spam appears on rec.travel.asia, but this is not it.

rec.travel.asia is for the discussion of everything to do with travel in Asia. The Oriental-List is to do with travel in Asia, too, and so mentioning it here is appropriate.

Spam is the uninvited promotion of commercial activity. Unlike the very many travel-related websites which advertise themselves here to boost visits and gain sales for travel companies and other advertisers, The Oriental-List carries no advertising whatsoever, and commercial postings and spam are not only forbidden, but actively blocked on the list.

Admittedly some small labreastude is given to the authors of books on China to say something about the launch of new breastles, and everyone is allowed to mention their business briefly in a sig file but only on condition that the remainder of their posting is generally helpful, and not self-promotional.

No one makes any income of any kind from the list, and mentions of it are not spam. Although it is increasingly popular and has been in existence for more than eight years (and in all of them mentioned rec.travel.asia) were it to disappear tomorrow it really wouldn't matter.

Nevertheless, each reminder of the list's existence here is carefully posted under the same heading so that frequent users of rec.travel.asia already familiar with its contents can ignore it. The frequency is never more than once a week, and throughout the year is far less on average. Each reminder does, however, bring in new members, which would seem to indicate that readers of rec.travel.asia do indeed find it relevant and of interest.