gbear,
there's really nothing for me to add, but since you did address a couple of questions to me I'll answer those:

1) If you DID live in Atlanta, would you still have viewed my announcement as a negative thing?

in a word, yes (in as much as it was a solicitation)

2) Why did... you bother to open a posting entitled "Atlanta Words courses?"

I was, in a word, curious (and not expecting a solicitation)

and you go on to ask us:
1) A title for the posting that would have more clearly let you know upfront that the information therein
would be useless to non-Atlanta people like yourselves?

WARNING! ATLANTA SPAM ALERT

2) A better medium for letting Atlanta people know of this "Atlanta Words courses" opportunity?

to quote an infamous (albeit fictional) denizen of Atlanta: frankly my dear, I don't give a damn

EDIT: that last was unnecessarily flippant. the fact of the matter is that AWAD (and this board) is a *totally free* public service provided by Anu Garg. if I were he and provided such a service (and I do), I would feel slighted and, well, used if someone started dropping in solicitations for profit.