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Subject: 
Re: Virtual Flower Delivery Service
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 16 Feb 1999 11:25:39 GMT
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In lugnet.general, talonts@vfaq.com (Tom Stangl, VFAQman) writes:
> Well, in his defense, he was right.....sort of...
> 
> How often do you see spam in a newsgroup?  And how often do you follow a
> link in a spam to check it out?  I sure as heck don't.

But how often do you post a public reply to a message containing a
prominently located URL without checking out what's on that URL first?

Anyway, no harm done.  Anyone could've mistaken it for spam, as you point
out.


> The ONLY reason I followed it to check it out was because Suzanne posted
> it.  If if would have been non-Lego, I was prepared to flame the hell out
> of her.
> 
> If it were anyone else (even Larry or Mike) except Suzanee or Todd, I would
> have never followed the link.
> 
> I think Suzanne's wording could have been a bit better to note to people
> that it WAS Lego related.  Nothing in the original post said so.

Hmm, good idea for next year.  I guess we think of Legopolis as such a real-
life thing (anthropomorphized, that is) that we tend to forget that it's
not.

Just as a cat or a dog hates it when they learn that they're not actually a
person, so do minifigs.  (Shhh...  :)

--Todd



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  Re: Virtual Flower Delivery Service
 
Well, in his defense, he was right.....sort of... How often do you see spam in a newsgroup? And how often do you follow a link in a spam to check it out? I sure as heck don't. The ONLY reason I followed it to check it out was because Suzanne posted (...) (28 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)

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