[DTC]

It seems this is against the CJ TOS...We've been doing it for months on my site, and we received a warning that we need to stop in 7 days .. That policy is utterly ridicoulous...

Email Received:

"It is a violation of the Commission Junction Publisher Service Agreement to include Commission Junction tracking links within a Message Board post/thread. You need to remove all such posts/threads by 1/17/2005."

TOS Snippet:

2.2 Use of Links to Advertisers. You may not place Links to an Advertiser's Web site or Web site content in newsgroups, message boards, unsolicited email and other types of spam, banner networks, counters, chatrooms, guestbooks, IRC channels or through similar Internet resources. You must place Links to the Advertiser's Web site or Web site content such that it is unlikely that the Links will mislead the Visitor, and such that it is reasonably likely that the Links will deliver bona fide Transactions by the Visitor to Advertiser from the Link. None of Your promotional activities may infringe an Advertiser's intellectual property rights (including but not limited to trademark rights), intellectual property rights of a competitor of an Advertiser, or CJ's intellectual property rights.