Dear eGroups Moderator,

You are receiving this notice because one or more of the groups you moderate at eGroups will likely be affected by the changes described in this notice.  Please read on.

eGroups is committed to offering you a high-quality, easy email group service.  As a business, we have two choices in paying for this service: one, charge members for its use, or two, include targeted text and HTML banner advertisements within emails sent to group members.  eGroups members have shown an overwhelming preference for a free, ad-supported service...and that's what we've provided.

To continue a high-quality, free, email groups service, we would like to notify you about two modifications to these advertising policies:

1. Improved Ad Removal
    eGroups already removes banner ads from message replies so they don't 'pile up' during email discussions.  We've extended this technology to remove text ads in addition to HTML banners.  All members will benefit from this improvement to the email group experience.

2. Movement of ads to the top of messages
    eGroups already inserts ads at the top of message digests, within all announcement-only and certain discussion groups.  We are extending this policy to include all groups.

Both of these changes will go into effect early next week.

For group owners who do not wish to have ads in messages to their groups, eGroups continues to offer a "No Advertising Option." For $4.95 (US) per month (payable in a single annual payment of $59.40), we will exclude all ads from the messages for your group.  For more info on this option, please see:

http://www.egroups.com/info/noads.html
 

Sincerely,

The eGroups Customer Support Team
support@egroups.com