Date sent: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 23:27:57 +1100 (EST)
From: Andrew Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [SLUG] [Further OT] Alleged spam
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> > So any advertising is to be regarded as spam?
>
> Where it is unwelcome or uninvited, yes.
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> If somebody was selling a 17" monitor for $200 on the list, I would
> be scrumaging for more of their details and would be calling them at
> work, etc :)
Do you invite people to send you emails (even from this list) where the
sole purpose is to sell something?? Isn't this uninvited?? It might not
be unwelcome (but it could be that too), but it would certainly be
uninvited.
Make your choice, is unwanted/uninvited advertising spam or not??
If it is, then nobody should EVER advertise anything for sale on this
list, as that would be uninvited and possibly unwelcome to some.
If it isn't, I ask that you withdraw your complaint regarding my 4 line
signature.
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> > If we are going to start referring to proper nettiquite, maybe we
> > had better do it correctly. No more sigs over 2 lines of 40 chars.
>
> I think 2-5 lines @ 78 characters is acceptable by my picky standards..
> Anything beyond that I find a little annoying.
Annoying doesn't come into the "standards of sig's with nettiquite. It
has been accepted for many, many years that a sig should be a max of 2
lines, 40 chars per line. Only in recent years has it been more widely
acceptable to have larger and larger sigs. By your above standards, my
signature is quite acceptable/
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> --
> The Second Annual Secret Aussie ICQ Meet - April 2000
> For more details, visit http://www.secret.com.au/icq/
^^^^^ Advertising!
Aussie
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