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Subject: 
Re: Well this gives a new meaning to Spam...
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general
Date: 
Mon, 27 Sep 1999 11:15:51 GMT
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lpieniazek@novera.com#Spamcake#
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Simon Robinson wrote:
> 
> I've just had a spam mail - from a company that sends out
> spam mail -  asking me if I want any mailings sent out!

That was your first one? Lucky!

> > TIRED OF THE "IN YOUR FACE ADS" (BANNERS)?  STATISTICS SHOW
> > THEY ARE NOT WORKING.  PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF THE FORCEFUL ADS
> > EACH AND EVERYTIME THEY CLICK ONTO A SITE.  PUT YOUR AD
> > DIRECTLY INTO THEIR MAILBOX, WHERE THEY CAN READ IT AT THEIR
> > LEISURE.

THIS is the richest part. People are "TIRED" of discreet banners that
take up a corner of a page, but ALL CAPS ads shoved into their mailboxes
are OK???  Huh?

This probably doesn't belong here but there doesn't seem to be an
off-topic.rant or off-topic.this-is-a-PITA... so I didn't change
followups.

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  Well this gives a new meaning to Spam...
 
I've just had a spam mail - from a company that sends out spam mail - asking me if I want any mailings sent out! It appears that for the modest sum of $750 I can have half a million email addresses bombarded. So come on guys - ideas - what - if (...) (27 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)

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