Re: Freebie and new Embroidery designs

Allan <justallan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If George writes a post saying "come see my website full of sewing
machine parts for sale", that would be spammage. If George writes a
post saying "this is what I think is causing your machine to do this,
and here's how to fix it", and happens to have a one-line sig with a
link to his website, it's not spammage.

I guess I get it now. It's ok, as long as you're known by the members
of the group who complain about spam.

NO! Where did I say that George is known to anyone on the group, or
even that he's posted before? It's not about whether the poster is
KNOWN. It's whether the post has something *USEFUL* to add to the
discussion. (this is USEnet, after all, not ADnet.)

Do you really *not* see the difference?

I won't keep dragging this out, but if the rule is applied to one,
surely it should be applied to all. If anything, I would think it
would be applied even more stringently to regulars.

That answers that question. You Just Don't Get It, period.

Folks, Allan just isn't going to get it. We'll just have to let him
be ignorant, since he doesn't even *want* to understand the
difference. Now filed under TROLL.

I've been online for I forget now - it's over a decade tho'.
spam is unwelcome - I just don't see messages giving a heads up to
free sewing stuff as spam in a sewing group.

If that's all they do, yes, it's spam. Go read the history of USEnet,
and stop being dense.

By USENET definition. yeah, it's arbitrary. Deal with it. If you
can't deal with it, be quiet.

--
Jenn Ridley : jridley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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