Rodney Long wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
Rodney Long wrote:
... Since I will no longer be "selling" anything, no one can claim
it's spam.

A commercial in a non-commercial Usenet newsgroup is SPAM,
no matter who's doing the actual retail work. There is a
fine line between a commercial and a testimonial but I have
no doubt that you'll push it right up to the line and beyond
until someone calls you on it. ;-)

No more than someone talking about drop shotting, Texas, or Carolina
rigging. The only difference is the people get to hear from the "real"
expert on using the rig. I have over 2,000 hours, (and over 4,000 fish
caught) experience using the Wiggle rig. I can make lures do things most
fishermen only dream about, I want to share that knowledge, and finally
I will be able to on news groups, people can call me all they want to on
it, according to my ISP, that is not spamming.

Spamming is mutable cross posting and mutable emails for profit, no
spammer would "waste" his time writing single emails, or "on topic"
post, and answering "on topic" questions in news groups, there is not
enough profit in it.

You're right, no SPAMmer would waste his time hawking his wares
on a non-commercial Usenet newsgroup because doing so would be
bad for business.

You realize that you're posting all this on a binary newsgroup
devoted to fishing pictures ? Hardly an appropriate venue for
commercials.

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Ken Fortenberry