Re: Forum Statistics

Sock it to em Mary


"Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Geoff Lane" <geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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What does 'spamvertise' mean?

One definition found on the 'net: The attempted promotion of a product,
service, or web site through the sending of junk mass emails, or junk
newsgroup posts. Considered invasive and a dubious means of promotion
that does many sites more harm than good.

John and Lisa's posts don't come into that category! They don't make mass
postings not are what they send junk. There are far, far worse posts in my
opinion.

That's only one definition though, are there others?


I still can't understand why their site is so unpopular and I don't
know how you know that yours is "one of the more popular".

My site isn't particularly popular.

I used your words.

I still can't understand why THEIR site is so unpopular. Nobody seems able
to explain that, except by using offensive language which makes me stop
reading because it's meaningless.

It's region-specific, so I don't get
what I would consider a lot of traffic. At the moment, I'm getting just
over 10,000 unique visits a month and about 700 unique visits per day.
According to its proprietor, G-spam is getting about 3,000 unique visits
per month (less than a third of what I'm seeing).

So?

Some of the more
popular caravanning/camping sites are getting per day more traffic than
he sees per month. So, contrary to his rather inflated claim, his site is
far from "one of the more popular"!

So?

I don't go to either so it doesn't matter to me but all this invective
seems childish to me.

To be honest, I mentally wished him well in his venture at first. But the
incessant spamming has worn somewhat thin.

Well, I'm quite antagonistic to spamming and if it's mail I delete it
unread, if it's posts and of no interest to me I don't open it. You could
do the same. Surely subjects by themselves don't offend you? If they do
you're lucky not to have more important things to be concerned about. I
don't see theirs as being spam, just irrelevant to my interests so they're
not read. No harm done to either party.

If John posted on-topic,
original messages and restricted promotion of his site to a link in his
sig I suspect that few would be annoyed.

If they didn't open the posts they wouldn't know what was in them so
wouldn't get annoyed.

I would certainly wish him well
and would look forward to his posts. Unfortunately, it seems that every
other message that I see on u.r.c. these days originated in an
advertisment for G-spam.

That's not my experience. Are we on different ngs?

By the way, what IS Gmail?

It's starting to annoy worse than "Phil Kyle"
and the kiddies ever did -

Oh come ON!

but that's perhaps the ploy: make u.r.c.
unbearable in the hope that everyone will migrate to G-spam :(

That's silly.

Mary



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