Quote Originally Posted by jobob View Post
I wasn't going to follow a link that someone out of the blue pm'd to me.

It could have been free, but from my perspective that doesn't matter one bit. It was an unsolicited advertisement.
No, I agree that it was mis-use, or at least, undesirable use, of the pm system, I was just questioning the bit about "misusing the forum for commercial interests". I felt the content was fine, the placing and the multiple messages was not.

But I'm fine with people posting general invites to other forums, I don't find that inappropriate.