 | | No more spam from Helge Viker —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | (...) I have spoken with Helge in several e-mails since this happened, and he seems very contrite about the whole ordeal. With that, I'd like to remove my complaint against him and apologize for what I said about him and his business practices. (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | | | | Re: No more spam from Helge Viker —Kevin Salm
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| | | | | (...) A happy ending for this episode, hopefully. I have been reading this thread as-it-happened (I get b-s-t via email) and one thing puzzles me about the whole affair. No one went on record to explain why the original email from Helge was, could, (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | | | | | | Re: No more spam from Helge Viker —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | | (...) [snip] Yes, technically it was Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (UCE), or perhaps even Unsolicited Bulk Commercial E-mail. But these days the term "spam" (not upper-case SPAM Luncheon Meat, the trademarked, um, food product) is used as a generic (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | | | | | | Re: No more spam from Helge Viker —John Neal
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| | | | | | | Kevin Salm wrote: <snip> (...) Unsolicited mass email *is* the definition of spam. (...) Nope. You cannot make this assumption. By your definition, I should be able to spam everyone on earth with my new money-making scheme because I assume that (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | flogging vs. spamming (was: Re: No more spam from Helge Viker) —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) I never defined auction flogs as spam. I've used the phrase "auction spam" or "spamming" in connection with auction noise in unwelcome places. Some flogs are spam (IMHO), some (maybe most) aren't. --Todd (25 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | | | | Re: No more spam from Helge Viker —Helge Viker
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| | | | (...) Yes I have certaintly learned a lot from this discussion. And I will hereby let everybody know that the dicussion directly between me and Jeremy has been conducted on a very polite and constructive level. Further I will say that I have no (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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