I personally don't consider Patti's post to be spam. I'm in complete agreement with Michael ... I rarely scroll down to the spam threads and look at them. And I WANT to hear/see what regulars on this board are into at the moment. We shouldn't have to pay to be a sponsor to be able to talk about our programs, get opinions, etc.

A suggestion would be to move up the spam/announcements higher above the page fold, so it's not 10 sections down... like put it under the main forum. So if it is just a drive by posting -- they'll hopefully get the hint of where it should go.