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Re: Virtual Flower Delivery Service
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 17 Feb 1999 20:41:35 GMT
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In lugnet.general, cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com (Mike Stanley) writes:
> Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
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> > Obviously it might've looked like spam to some people.
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> Nope, Tom's opinion about usenet spam aside, I don't really think it
> could have,
I think you're arguing whether or not it "should" have looked like spam...?
That's a moot argument, since we know that it did in fact look like spam to at
least one person. Again, we're all only human, and we tend to read things very
quickly when there is a lot to wade through. Even then, not everyone here has
been around for 3+ years.
> especially if one actually looks at the site.
True, if someone actually clicks on the URL and goes to the site, they'll
definitely understand that it's not spam. Yet, it's reasonable to cut someone
some slack who didn't recognize the poster's name and who didn't see the
characters "lego" embedded in the URL. Certainly, based on the content of the
message posting, it was one of the most spam-looking things seen here in a long
time.
> The virtual flowers service have won me MAJOR brownie points - I like
> 'em. Recommended them to friends even. :)
Cool!
Now that sort of comment is more helpful to someone following along than any
flamage could be.
I wish I could take back my other posting (to Kevin) and come at it again from
a different angle. My knee-jerk reaction was to mildly poke Kevin for what he
wrote, but a more productive and friendly approach would have been to (a)
acknowledge that it did in fact appear somewhat spam-looking and (b) invite
Kevin to take a closer look and try it out.
--Todd
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| (...) The word baseplate appears 3 times; both it and legopolis appear in the URL which stands out a bit. Combined with the effort it takes to be able to post to a lugnet group (making spam extremely unlikely), and the amount of time you have to (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) at (...) very (...) has (...) Just becuase one person thinks it looks like spam does not mean we should condemn it as such. One person is not enough to define what is and what isn't in life. Jesse ___...___ (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) [...] (...) someone (...) the (...) long (...) Of course, let's remember where "here" is; namely LUGNet, a moderated (however lightly) private service where true spammers can not get to due to the registration (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) That's what I get for having my phone service go out for a day and missing a couple of days of work. Everyone else makes a topic moot before I get to it. :) (...) You're probably right. (...) Nope, Tom's opinion about usenet spam aside, I (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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