Nasty Spammers - was Re: anni.com
From Kattz <kat...@geocities.com>
· alt.ascii-art.animation
· 30 Sep 1997 00:00 · View full thread
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On Thu, 25 Sep 1997 16:15:11 -0400, Yam <eri...@erols.com> wrote: >I'd like to say that business advertising does not belong in Usenet. It >belongs in the web. It's perfectly ok to advertise a business on the >Internet, but not to post it to places that don't want it, or e-mail >somebody an advertisement. Sure the person can ignore it, but it still >takes up space. It may not be much, but if everyone keeps spamming >everybody, the space adds up. Same thing with Usenet. Some people have >offline browsers that download everything at once, without looking at >headers. They end up downloading a bunch of advertisements that nobody >wants. <some newsgroups deleted from original 19> <I am posting from alt.binaries.pictures.firemen a group I'm testing to see if I like it> The real bad spammers are the ones that include big programs or pictures that do take a lot of download-time and hd-space and do not belong in pure text newsgroups. and should not be e-mailed to people who did not solicit them. I also hate ads that are e-mailed to me saying that they just know I'm going to want their product because they saw my post in a newsgroup that I know I've never posted to. Kattz http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Marina/1278/ Some on-site stories I have Index pages with FTP links to Aviary stories
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