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In lugnet.admin.general, Eric Joslin writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > What I WILL dispute is that any of these are flogs. Unless you define a flog
> > as the mere mention of something commercial, that is, which is a definition
> > I dispute. Strongly.
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> Unfortunately, you aren't the one who gets to define "flog" here. Todd is, and
> he weighed in and agreed that it seemed to be a flog. So, accept that the post
> in question was considered to be a flog, and probably shouldn't have been made
> in the form and group it was made in.
I suppose I wasn't totally clear in what I wrote earlier. Yes, I personally
happen to feel that what (not ++, that's not part of his name)Lar wrote was
a flog (IMHO), but I also added that I thought it was more brag than flog.
To make an analogy, apple juice is more juice than it is apple, or a minivan
is more a van than it is a car, even though it's part car.
But in the final analysis, I don't think it really matters too much because
Lar didn't really break the T&C, so the only thing "bad" or "wrong" that he
did was annoy people, which isn't against the T&C. A small-scale debate has
ensued here due to the line-toeing, which annoys me and I wish Lar would
knock it off, but I'm not that persuasive.
Anyway, when I weighed in and agreed that it seemed to be a flog, I later
conceded,
"[...] It sure read like a flog to me, and only after you called it
a brag was I able to see more insight into its purpose and agree that
it's more a brag than a flog. But it's also a flog, IMHO."
It's a subtle distinction and the burden of mistaken meaning is entirely
mine. I think we all know a flog when we see one, but this one reached a
new level of ingenuity.
**Todd
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| (...) Unfortunately, you aren't the one who gets to define "flog" here. Todd is, and he weighed in and agreed that it seemed to be a flog. So, accept that the post in question was considered to be a flog, and probably shouldn't have been made in the (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.terms)
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