Re: Is this Spam?! was (RE: PLEASE HELP! looking for a good web host

BFI wv107 <wv1...@bfi-kaernten.or.at> wrote:

> i don't think this is spam....
> none of the companies would search newsgroups to see
> whetere anybody is looking for a website hosting...
> 
> thought about that?

errmm, i guess you missed the point...  the thing is that the _first_
post seems to be fairly wague and could be part of the spamming...
also, as pointed out before, the second post seems not to be posted as
an follow-up...  so what acctually has happened is that the 'same'
person asked "How do I make money?" and replied "Call XXX-XXX-XXX"

> i don't think that this is the thread of one person (or whatever)
> cause i don't think that someone is doing this in some newsgroups
> just to get one or two more customers....

why not?  it's not more difficult to spam posting two message than just
one...  and it's a clever way to avoid any news-abuse reports which
could result in closing down the domain...

> by the way: http://learn.to/quote
>
> regards anyway
> thomas p
> tho...@gmx.at

oh god, and here i thought this was a typical german thing...  but it
seems that it's also an austrian bug ...  :/   afterall, do you consider
your post to be quoted 'correctly'?

[hint: insert posters name here!]
> > Is it just me, or does this seem to be *very* clever spam?  First, let's
> > note, that this post is extremely off-topic (unless "Mike"'s website is
> > about ascii-art -- something he didn't say).  Also, in my newsreader, the
> > response showed up before the original article.  Plus there's the way the
> > two posts are worded -- they seemed to use the same "letter" format, not
> > something one normally finds on the Usenet.

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