I guess I got an answer

The diagnose is obvious. Just block the wacky posters and enjoy what is
left. I get 20 posts a day tops, w/o counting the spam.

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I asked, a while back, whether this place serves a purpose.

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Baldrick said:

The diagnose is obvious. Just block the wacky posters and enjoy what is
left. I get 20 posts a day tops, w/o counting the spam.

While rotting in the stink of your own reflections -- god forbid you
should ever have to encounter a contrary opinion.

-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants
were standing on my shoulders." (Hal Abelson, MIT)

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I asked, a while back, whether this place serves a purpose.

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In article <[email hidden]>,

Baldrick said:

The diagnose is obvious. Just block the wacky posters and enjoy what is
left. I get 20 posts a day tops, w/o counting the spam.

While rotting in the stink of your own reflections -- god forbid you
should ever have to encounter a contrary opinion.

Good one Dave. I agree with you on that.

I reckon most of the spam dispersed to the pubic is to get them to go along
with restrictions on the internet.

Carole
http://www.austarmetro.com.au/~hubbca/media.htm

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Carole said:

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In article <[email hidden]>,

Baldrick said:

The diagnose is obvious. Just block the wacky posters and enjoy what is
left. I get 20 posts a day tops, w/o counting the spam.

While rotting in the stink of your own reflections -- god forbid you
should ever have to encounter a contrary opinion.

Good one Dave. I agree with you on that.

I reckon most of the spam dispersed to the pubic is to get them to go along
with restrictions on the internet.

I sure hope you mean "public" in the foregoing. :-)

In any case, I disagree with you -- most of the spam is attempting to
sell products of dubious value.

-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants
were standing on my shoulders." (Hal Abelson, MIT)

(David Wright) said:

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Carole said:

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In article <[email hidden]>,
Baldrick <[email hidden]> wrote:
>The diagnose is obvious. Just block the wacky posters and enjoy what is
>left. I get 20 posts a day tops, w/o counting the spam.

While rotting in the stink of your own reflections -- god forbid you
should ever have to encounter a contrary opinion.

Good one Dave. I agree with you on that.

I reckon most of the spam dispersed to the pubic is to get them to go along
with restrictions on the internet.

I sure hope you mean "public" in the foregoing. :-)

Perhaps she was referring to all the Viagra spam.

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In any case, I disagree with you -- most of the spam is attempting to
sell products of dubious value.

-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants
were standing on my shoulders." (Hal Abelson, MIT)

--
Peter Bowditch
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I reckon most of the spam dispersed to the pubic is to get them to go along
with restrictions on the internet.

I sure hope you mean "public" in the foregoing. :-)

Yeah, I meant "public" not pubic. That was a typo.

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In any case, I disagree with you -- most of the spam is attempting to
sell products of dubious value.

I'm not too sure about that, for a couple of reasons.
(1) Remember back a couple of months ago when that Microsoft spam was
doing the rounds with arriving emails being 157K in size? At the same
time all the other spam dropped off, then when the ISPs figured out a
program to screen it out, the other stuff started turning up again.

(2) If the emails are meant to attract people to buy stuff, how come
some of them are so poorly written and put together so seemingly in
haste?

There is no doubt a percentage of genuine spam trying to sell stuff,
but basically my thinking is that possibly it is part of a plan to
reduce free speech on the internet by getting people to get so sick of
spam, they will agree to some sort of restrictions.

You can't prove I'm wrong, except by saying something like "who is
they?" and "you're paranoid" or something like that.

Carole
http://www.austarmetro.com.au/~hubbca/media.htm

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(2) If the emails are meant to attract people to buy stuff, how come
some of them are so poorly written and put together so seemingly in
haste?

That's because the real money in spamming doesn't come from spamming for
your own products (hardly anyone makes money that way), it comes from
selling spam software and e-mail lists to suckers who think they can market
their own products that way. It's really a lot like MLM, where the money
isn't in product sales, it's in getting other people into the program, and
most of the people involved have no sales skills at all. A sucker spams
and his ISP shuts him down, but by the time they do the people selling spam
tools will have found tens or hundreds more suckers.

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Carole said:

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I reckon most of the spam dispersed to the pubic is to get them to go along
with restrictions on the internet.

I sure hope you mean "public" in the foregoing. :-)

Yeah, I meant "public" not pubic. That was a typo.

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In any case, I disagree with you -- most of the spam is attempting to
sell products of dubious value.

I'm not too sure about that, for a couple of reasons.
(1) Remember back a couple of months ago when that Microsoft spam was
doing the rounds with arriving emails being 157K in size? At the same
time all the other spam dropped off, then when the ISPs figured out a
program to screen it out, the other stuff started turning up again.

Your version of history is so much more entertaining than the truth.
No wonder you prefer your version.

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(2) If the emails are meant to attract people to buy stuff, how come
some of them are so poorly written and put together so seemingly in
haste?

Because the people who send them out are morons. And I have no doubt
that a lot of them can't deliver what they claim to deliver. I refuse
to believe there are *that* many sites selling Vicodin. Rush Limbaugh
would never have had to get his maid to score the stuff for him if
that were true.

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There is no doubt a percentage of genuine spam trying to sell stuff,
but basically my thinking is that possibly it is part of a plan to
reduce free speech on the internet by getting people to get so sick of
spam, they will agree to some sort of restrictions.

Ah, I should have realized you'd manage to drag in a conspiracy.

Never attribute to evil anything that is adequately explained by
stupidity. You'll be right a lot more often that way.

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You can't prove I'm wrong, except by saying something like "who is
they?" and "you're paranoid" or something like that.

I can't "prove" you're wrong, but you are doing a ghastly job of
proving you even might be right.

-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants
were standing on my shoulders." (Hal Abelson, MIT)

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Carole writ
There is no doubt a percentage of genuine spam trying to sell stuff,
but basically my thinking is that possibly it is part of a plan to
reduce free speech on the internet by getting people to get so sick of
spam, they will agree to some sort of restrictions.

Ah, I should have realized you'd manage to drag in a conspiracy.

Never attribute to evil anything that is adequately explained by
stupidity.

I thought it was "Never attribute to Alice..." But I don;'t know who she
was or who penned the phrase.

Le M. 3