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Double your money
Jul 12, 2006
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SPAM...
Anyone got a tin of SPAM?!
abuse report sent to snipped-for-privacy@demon.co.uk
Who made you usenet police? I posted a link to an article on a leading mining news and analysis website. How could this possibly be spam?
Just trying to spread a little happiness, unlike yourself.
H..
Who me? wrote:
Nope, it was spam. Therefore you get reported to your web hosting company.
Define spam.
snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com wrote:
Anything with a subject line like yours must be regarded as spam unless proven otherwise.
Tiddy Ogg.
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You asked for it...
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* Electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings. Some people define spam even more generally as any unsolicited e-mail. However, if a long-lost brother finds your e-mail address and sends you a message, this could hardly be called spam, even though it's unsolicited. Real spam is generally e-mail advertising for some product sent to a mailing list or newsgroup. In addition to wasting people's time with unwanted e-mail, spam also eats up a lot of network bandwidth. Consequently, there are many organizations, as well as individuals, who have taken it upon themselves to fight spam with a variety of techniques. But because the Internet is public, there is really little that can be done to prevent spam, just as it is impossible to prevent junk mail. However, some online services have instituted policies to prevent spammers from spamming their subscribers.
There is some debate about the source of the term, but the generally accepted version is that it comes from the Monty Python song, "Spam spam spam spam, spam spam spam spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam." Like the song, spam is an endless repetition of worthless text. Another school of thought maintains that it comes from the computer group lab at the University of Southern California who gave it the name because it has many of the same characteristics as the lunchmeat Spam:
Nobody wants it or ever asks for it. No one ever eats it; it is the first item to be pushed to the side when eating the entree. Sometimes it is actually tasty, like 1% of junk mail that is really useful to some people.
I noticed someone (the spammer no doubt) had rated your posts as poor on Google Groups -
I've noticed spammers doing the same on other occasions which will screw things up if Google ever decide to make use of these ratings.
I've tried to redress the balance a little :-)
Daytona
But what on earth does that matter? Who will see it except other losers using google groups?
Tiddy Ogg.
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Lots of people use Google Groups including me.
Care to explain how that makes me a loser ?
Daytona
Bitstring , from the wonderful person Daytona said
You've lost out on the facilities offered by a decent newsreader, and you are supporting a service which resolutely refuses to do anything about the amount of spam being spewed into usenet via its system. As a result many people (me included) now just killfile anything originating from googlegroups.
Since I saw the post above I deduce it =wasn't= posted via googlegroups, so presumably you are only a part-time loser ..
Anyway!
If anyone acted on my so called spam, well done! You have made 7.23% today. More than you'll make in a year in your bank account or building society.
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I still don't think a link to a legitimate website is spam.
H..
GSV Three M> Bitstring , from the
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