Thanks everyone for your responses. The result is pretty clear now so I'll close the 
poll here. 'No' gained 35 votes (77.8%); 'Yes' 10 votes (22.2%). https://goo.gl/0osxC9

I said I couldn't manage any nuances to this rule, but there were a couple of useful 
refinements suggested which shouldn't take too much effort: firstly allowing 
publisher employees on as individuals, not to plug anything but to take part in 
discussions; and secondly telling publishers to encourage their authors to join the 
list and showcase their own books. So I'll do that. If they start spamming the list 
I'll kick them off the list, citing this poll as a mandate :)

Dave

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On 12/10/2015 14:59, Dave Sayers wrote:
> Hello TeachLingers,
>
> A membership subscription request has just come in from someone at Informa (the
> corporate overlord of Routledge and Taylor & Francis). Presumably this is to plug
> books relevant to the list. Some people find those sorts of emails genuinely helpful,
> e.g. to keep up with useful new texts. Other people find them little better than
> spam. So before I approve their membership (and any subsequent ones from other
> publishers) I thought I'd ask all of you. Please vote!
>
> http://goo.gl/forms/6L0evozuVL
>
> Note: I haven't included options to allow certain publishers but not others. Honestly
> that would be too fiddly to implement. So it's either all publishers or none.
>
> Dave
>
> --
> Dr. Dave Sayers
> Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University
> Honorary Research Fellow, Arts & Humanities, Swansea University (2009-2015)
> [log in to unmask] | http://shu.academia.edu/DaveSayers

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