On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 04:11:01 -0800, Jon Splane wrote:

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Dave,

How about if you put up or shut up. Point us to a charter to this
newgroup. You stated in two seperate posts responding to "ozemail" that
he was in violation of the charter of this newsgroup. You owe him an
apology for your flaming as you are clearly in error as to the existence
of a charter for this group.

It is not necessary for any newsgroup to have a charter for SPAM to be
considered a bad thing. Few charters have any means of enforcement
anyway. However, ISPs often will enforce their own terms of service
and those include general statements that can be construed to, "Don't
irritate the natives, particularly with advertising." Advertising (in
any way other than sig files) in conversational newsgroups is against
Nettiquette and Usenet conventions. If the advertiser's ISP is a
worthy one, they'll listen to complaints sent to them. People have
lost their accounts over it. Not a good thing if you have to go
through the hassle of moving your whole Web site to another provider.

In general, one time advertisements of personal items for sale are
acceptable in most groups. Depends on the users. In general,
commercial advertising is not okay.

Advertisers would be wise to consider whether or not it's a _good_
thing to **** off the people they're trying to sell things to. Then
again, I've only seen two SPAMmers with good enough Web sites to be
able to read them and only one of them had any decent merchandize.
Like SPAMmer, so product?
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