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Posted by Gary L. Burnore on 01/06/08 22:15
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 22:04:57 +0000 (UTC), Neredbojias
<monstersquasher@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:06:01
>GMT Gary L. Burnore scribed:
>
>>>>> Good day, and Fuck off.
>>>>>
>>>> I was wondering when you were going to fit that last part in. It's
>>>> one of the best posts of the thread.
>>>
>>>Face it, Chaddy, this thread doesn't have any "best" parts. What
>>>tickles me, though, are the spam accusations. In the general sense,
>>>the whole thread is spam.
>>
>> No, in general the entire thread is off charter for comp groups and
>> off topic in the alt groups. NOT spam.
>>
>> Spam is well defined and has been for years. Jerry and a few dipshits
>> want to redefine spam. If they could succeed (they can't) they'd make
>> USENet unreadable as real spam would be free to pass.
>
>Well, I admittedly might not be adhering to the technical definition of
>"spam" but spam to me is anything off-subject which I find offensive and in
>particular attempts to influence the reader in ways not germane to the
>scope of the group. Be that as it may, I'm not going to argue about it and
>promulgate the offense. Whatever it is or isn't, most of the posts in this
>thread are definitely not wanted by the vast majority of perusers where
>they do, indeed, appear. The posters of said material are clearly either
>oblivious or indifferent to the fact. Ergo, one man's spam is another
>man's crap - all of which is undesirable.
The problem is, calling something spam when it's not does two
things(*): It lessens the real meaning of the term, making it harder
to fight those things that are actual spam, and it makes the person
claiming it be spam to fight an unwinable fight.
Instead of calling it spam, call it what it is. Off topic. If you're
in a comp.* group, covered by an enforceable charter, that's enough to
get someone to stop in most cases.
(*) probably more than two but those are the two that are relevent.
--
gburnore at DataBasix dot Com
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