Everyone with an e-mail address has gotten them–unsolicited messages from people who use up bandwidth to send a flurry of advertisements. While we don’t mind members offering sincere suggestions of products and services to other members, we don’t tolerate quantities of messages sent by people who stand to earn money from the promotion of such products and services.

IAMValley provides proper channels for members to promote their products and services such as the IAM Barter Exchange Program™. We do not believe that discussion groups, chat rooms and other forums outside these channels should be used for promotional purposes. Such forums need to be clear of such blatant advertising to foster a real sense of camaraderie without the suspicion of commercial motives.