Re: lifa

Leafing through rec.running, I read a message from [email hidden] of 09
Jan 2005:

Quoted message said:

There are several online vendors that sell Helly Hansen LIFA products.
We are one of them:

To whom are you replying?

Phil M.

Quoted message said:

There are several online vendors that sell Helly Hansen LIFA products.
We are one of them:

http://www.outrec.com/shop/ctlg/1/category/0202

You sent your advertisement to three different groups (none of which are for
advertisements) yet ignored rec.bicycles.marketplace, the obviously-correct
place for such things.

Please note that rec.bicycles.misc has a pretty decent signal-to-noise
ratio, because, for the most part, people don't post ads here. If that was
generally allowed, it would be much more difficult for people to find the
type of content they're looking for.

Thanks-

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com

Mike Jacoubowsky said:

Quoted message said:

There are several online vendors that sell Helly Hansen LIFA

products.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

We are one of them:

http://www.outrec.com/shop/ctlg/1/category/0202

You sent your advertisement to three different groups (none of which

are for

Quoted message said:

advertisements) yet ignored rec.bicycles.marketplace, the

obviously-correct

Quoted message said:

place for such things.

Please note that rec.bicycles.misc has a pretty decent

signal-to-noise

Quoted message said:

ratio, because, for the most part, people don't post ads here. If

that was

Quoted message said:

generally allowed, it would be much more difficult for people to find

the

Quoted message said:

type of content they're looking for.

Thanks-

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com

Hey Mike - the OP asked where to get the stuff, the outrec person gave
them an answer. I think that it's a little hypocritical of you to slap
this person down when you include your own URL with every post (which
are always thoughtful and enjoyable, incidentally). If you were
actually so pure as you want this other person to be, we wouldn't even
know you had a bike shop. Personally, I see nothing wrong with a
little self promotion if it is entirely relevant to the post.

Mort
(criciticism offered in the friendliest and most respectful manner)

mort said:

Mike Jacoubowsky said:

Quoted message said:

There are several online vendors that sell Helly Hansen LIFA
products. We are one of them:

http://www.outrec.com/shop/ctlg/1/category/0202

You sent your advertisement to three different groups (none of which
are for advertisements) yet ignored rec.bicycles.marketplace, the
obviously-correct place for such things.

Please note that rec.bicycles.misc has a pretty decent
signal-to-noise ratio, because, for the most part, people don't post
ads here. If that was generally allowed, it would be much more
difficult for people to find the type of content they're looking for.

Thanks-

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com

Hey Mike - the OP asked where to get the stuff, the outrec person gave
them an answer. I think that it's a little hypocritical of you to
slap this person down when you include your own URL with every post
(which are always thoughtful and enjoyable, incidentally). If you
were actually so pure as you want this other person to be, we
wouldn't even know you had a bike shop. Personally, I see nothing
wrong with a little self promotion if it is entirely relevant to the
post.

Mort
(criciticism offered in the friendliest and most respectful manner)

*IF* the OP was truly replying to someone's question (highly questionable it
appears), THEN your criticism might be appropriate. It would be like me
pretending to answer some non-existent post with something promoting my
business, and posting it to a number of newsgroups; not very kosher, IMO...

Bill "writes and produces customized 'On Hold' messages for biz phone
systems, if you must know ;-) " S.

(Hey, maybe I should Cc: this to a bunch of other groups!)

mort said:

<Spam snipped>

Quoted message said:

Hey Mike - the OP asked where to get the stuff, the outrec person gave
them an answer. I think that it's a little hypocritical of you to slap
this person down when you include your own URL with every post (which
are always thoughtful and enjoyable, incidentally). If you were
actually so pure as you want this other person to be, we wouldn't even
know you had a bike shop. Personally, I see nothing wrong with a
little self promotion if it is entirely relevant to the post.

Mort
(criciticism offered in the friendliest and most respectful manner)

That advertisement is in reply to absolutely no one and is cross posted
to other groups right out of the blue.

I for one will go out of my way to avoid 'any' spammer's product. If
the guy is so low as to spam newsgroups or if his product is so poor he
'has' to spam to try and find suckers, then I for one sure won't buy
from him.

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

Leafing through rec.running, I read a message from [email hidden]
of 09 Jan 2005:

Quoted message said:

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 02:23:17 GMT in
<[email hidden]>, "Phil M."
<[email hidden]> graced the world with this thought:

Quoted message said:

Leafing through rec.running, I read a message from [email hidden]
of 09 Jan 2005:

Quoted message said:

There are several online vendors that sell Helly Hansen LIFA
products. We are one of them:

To whom are you replying?

Phil M.

Look at his header, and you'll see.

What do I see? I see he is replying to nobody. This is spam under the guise
of being "helpful."

Phil M.

Quoted message said:

Hey Mike - the OP asked where to get the stuff, the outrec person gave
them an answer. I think that it's a little hypocritical of you to slap
this person down when you include your own URL with every post (which
are always thoughtful and enjoyable, incidentally). If you were
actually so pure as you want this other person to be, we wouldn't even
know you had a bike shop. Personally, I see nothing wrong with a
little self promotion if it is entirely relevant to the post.

Mort
(criciticism offered in the friendliest and most respectful manner)

Mort: I wouldn't have posted except that his "reply" was *not* a reply, and
in fact spam that was cross-posted to multiple newsgroups. I'd pointed that
out in my post; obviously, he wasn't "replying" to three separate posts in
three separate newsgroups.

It was, in fact, pure, unadulterated spam, with a subject designed to make
you think he was supplying useful information to somebody's question. There
was no such question.

Not to say I'd never be guilty of being hypocritical, of course! But I
seriously believe that we've got a good thing going in a couple of the
bike-related newsgroups, and I'd hate to see them overrun with spam such
that you couldn't find useful information anymore.

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com