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On 24/10/01, 13:59:45, Sam Goldsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote regarding RE: [OCF] SLE4442 cards promotion:
> you know..
> if hypocrites like Marc Palmer want to blast others' names on here, he is
> just as bad wasting others times with his crying on this site as "I"
> supposedly am for broadcasting out that I own all these readers.
> What is wrong with me offering a $200 reader out for $50 bucks!!!
> I think I am doing justice and being American offering a discount out to
> this group. I am not harming anyone, nor putting anthrax in anyone's
> emails!!!
Frankly, it is bizarre that you are trying to justify your actions saying
they are not as harmful as acts of terrorism.
You obviously have no understanding of net "etiquette". Every mail you
(and I) send to this list is inevitably downloaded by someone. Somebody
pays for the bandwidth. You are shifting the cost of your advertising
onto the recipient. This is widely acceptant as tantamount to theft. See
http://www.cauce.org for some people who are obviously "un-American" by
your reckoning.
If this method of advertising is really working for you, then open your
own mailing list specially for "smartcard hot deals" and leave the OCF
technical list alone. To be fair to you, the OpenCard list "charter" from
opencard.org says:
"The main emphasis is, of course, on OpenCard, but we don't frown on you
if you discuss smart card issues at large."
So the mandate is pretty vague... but even then I'm not sure that your
adverts are considered "discussing smart card issues at large". There's
no discussion involved!
So, now we have both polluted the list with irrelevant junk, I will stop.
I hope that you will too. You're a good salesman! I'm sure you won't have
any trouble selling these cards without resorting to list spamming.
Cheers
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