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Re: Spam from Andreas Stabno
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lugnet.general, lugnet.market.auction
Date: 
Mon, 19 Oct 1998 18:20:32 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek <lpien@ctp.com> wrote
I suspect we are going to have to agree to disagree on this one, Moz.(1) I
don't see what Andreas originally did as spam.

His response claimed to have got my address from my roll call form. Which
is NOT what that's for. To add insult to injury, it means that he claims
to have read that my interest is Technic rather than town. But he thought
I might like his advertisement anyway.

Yes, we have to agree to disagree. To me, any kind of unsolicited
advertising that I have to pay to receive is spam. And I refuse to deal
with them.

Finally, I think using "it" instead of "he" is a bit weak.

So suggest a better non-gender-specific English pronoun. I have used
s/he/it but people objected. "It" at least is relatively neutral, and
short.

But you're right in a way, I would have liked to have been very direct,
but wasn't.

Moz



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  Re: Spam from Andreas Stabno
 
moz wrote in message ... (...) I'm moving this off-topic. So make sure you take the rest of the headers out if you reply. Proper English uses a masculine pronoun when there is an unknown person involved, or requires the longer "he or she." If the (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Spam from Andreas Stabno
 
(...) I suspect we are going to have to agree to disagree on this one, Moz.(1) I don't see what Andreas originally did as spam. Further I don't agree that Andreas hasn't responded to the charges. He did, in fact. At the mo I can't remember if it was (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.auction)

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