Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 04:35:18 GMT From: "Abdallah" <abdallahjamalnopsamo.ca> Subject: Re: Plastic Bumpers on-line store is open 24x7
"Grunff" <grunffnopsam.com> wrote in message news:bfg5hk$egldf$1nopsam52899.news.uni-berlin.de... > Abdallah wrote: > > > thanks for the resources. the third one sold me. i will > > refrain from top-posting from now on. > > I'm glad you think it makes sense. I don't tend to abide by > conventions unless they make good sense, and when I first came > to Usenet, the argument against top posting made sense to me. > > Happy Saabing. > maybe i shouldn't post this, but i'm a bit miffed - and i still haven't had any respond to my request. ..begin rant.. i want to get back to the reason i posted in this thread in the first place. i've been thinking (perhaps too long) about what grunff and dave said to me in reply to my request that dave not re-post parts of spammers' messages. i have been appropriately admonished for top-posting, and, in good faith did the necessary reading to understand the rules of usenet. nonetheless, i think the diversion to correct my usenet habits took away the wind from my original request, which i still feel is a sensible one. i think any response to a spammer gives them confidence that their crap is being read. re-posting the same crap, albeit to take them to task, just gives their spam more air time and in a way legitimizes it. if this news group is about saabs, then we should ignore and delete any messages that do not respect the subject rather than giving those messages any "air-time". frankly i'm miffed that i was admonished for top-posting while i was genuinely trying to cull the expansion of a spammers thread. here's the request: i request again that everyone in this group delete *all* spam messages and not respond to them at all, for whatever reason. don't give them any air-time. the fact that the spammer that started this thread posts here often just confirms that he suspects that his spam is read. (and in order to respond to it, one has to have read it, hasn't one?). as a usenet poster, i *didn't* expect to get my hands slapped, but i've agreed to shape up. i'd wager, on the other hand, that the spammer *does* expect to get his hands slapped and will *never* agree to shape up. so lets just ignore the crap, and get on with the saabing. ..end rant.. -- ____________________ abdallah 87 9000S 280,000 km (hers) 87 9000T 240,000 km (mine)
