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Re: Lego funny money
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lugnet.market.theory
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Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:37:26 GMT
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In lugnet.market.auction, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.market.auction, Ben Ridout writes:
> > James Brown wrote:
> > > Two things:
> > > First, your message violates their anit-spam policy.(1) I'm not going to
> > > report you, because I know you're a valued member to the online LEGO
> > > community, and don't think you intended any harm by it. But you might
> > > want to cancel your post, so that someone else doesn't report it.
> > > 1:"Usenet and message board spam are messages sent or posted which are
> > > unrelated to the topic of discussion of the particular news group or
> > > message board"
> >
> > I appreciate your levelheadedness and concern. Thank you. I think posting 1
> > teeny tiny message about how I and others can get money to buy LEGO is
> > related to, albeit indirectly. I considered this before posting.
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> Hmm, I thought it would be OK if Ben posted it too. (After seeing Larry's
> message yesterday about X.com, Ben asked me what I thought about his posting
> a message about alladvantage.com.) I told Ben I thought it was fine (didn't
> break any LUGNET discussion group rules) as long as he didn't start spamming
> non-market groups with it, etc.
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> I thought it would be OK because it seemed "reasonably related to" LEGO toys.
> (After all, it's how Ben is currently funding his LEGO addition.) I don't
> subscribe to the service and wasn't aware of its non-spam policy. If what
> Ben posted is considered spam by alladvantage.com's TOS, then even though it
> doesn't (IMHO) break any LUGNET rules (so far as I can tell), it still could
> be (as James pointed out) a problem for Ben...
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> Man, what a week for gray-areas! :-o
Yup. I only brought it up because Alladvantage is very hard-line on keeping
it's subscribers from spamming.
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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| (...) I think that's because as probably the best-known "paid to surf" program, they catch all the flack from losers spamming hundreds of groups at a time with info about it. I've seen AA go from something I doubted would survive to what seems to be (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| (...) Hmm, I thought it would be OK if Ben posted it too. (After seeing Larry's message yesterday about X.com, Ben asked me what I thought about his posting a message about alladvantage.com.) I told Ben I thought it was fine (didn't break any LUGNET (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.theory)
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