Well said Rodney.

"Rodney Long" wrote in message
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Ken Fortenberry wrote:
Chris S wrote:
Sorry Ken but is your take on this so called spam....thats just your
opinion and you know they are just like AH everyone got one

No, not just my opinion, the opinion of many people who have
participated in Usenet newsgroups long enough to know that
commercials have no place in a non-commercial newsgroup.

The real question here is "what" constitutes a commercial ?

If any person starts singing the praises of the Honey Toad on this group,
is that a commercial ? if he does so, then list a place on the internet
where he buys them cheap, does this make it a commercial ?

I have never seen you jump anyone who has done this in the past, as long
as this was not "their" web site. It is still a "commercial" the best kind
a manufacturer, or tackle store could get.

Ken I agree with you, we don't want post like this every day, week or even
month.

"Check out my new darting minnow, you can buy them at
http://dartingminnow.com"

Coming from a non contributing person who is only out there trying to sell
his lures. or even from a long time contributing member. This "is" a
commercial, and is even "spam" if it is cross posted to many groups.

No person or company can survive in the tackle industry talking about his
products in a couple of, or even many news groups. It's just not a very
effective means of letting the world know, actually it is Non productive
waste of a persons time, just too few customers. One story in Bassmaster
reaches 2,000,000 bass fishermen. One local tackle trade show reaches
thousands. This group, maybe 100 lurkers and 30 contributers . It is not
worth the time for a manufacturer to spend time contributing to the group,
and that is why "real spammers" just cross post a "commercial" from time
to time. It is only the click of the mouse.

I come here not to make money, I come because I love to fish and to share
my success. I could spend my time "making" money elsewhere, instead of
posting to this group. The time I "waste" here could be used in contacting
more stores to sell my products, which is profitable.

So my time here is just because I like talking to other fishermen, about
fishing, and I do all of my fishing using my rig. No person in the World
can fish my technique better than me. I have thousands of hours on the
water using it. I could care less to my bottom line, if people here "buy"
it, just not enough money here to matter. That's why I sent so many
members free product. I just want them catching more fish. Eventually, my
plan is to supply every regular member here "free" product for life.(now
that's not to mean every lurker who comes by, as that could get into the
thousands of fishermen once the word gets out all you have to do is come
to this group to get "all" your wiggle rigs for free) This offer is to all
the ones who have "already" taken advantage of my free offer over the last
week or two. (a large number of people here by the way)

I would be talking about the Wiggle rig here much, much, much, more if I
didn't invent it. Just because it is so effective. The reason I have not
is obvious.



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Rodney Long
SpecTastic tackle company

http://spectastictackle.com/