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Subject: 
Re: Virtual Flower Delivery Service
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general
Date: 
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:45:34 GMT
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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

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 look at this short post to respond,
it's pretty hard to misunderstand.

-gbr



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  Re: Virtual Flower Delivery Service
 
(...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)

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