On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 14:51:12 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

Donut wrote:
The Great Gazooka wrote:
... He can take his f****** G&S guide service and shove it
up your naive a**. Stupid fools like you encourage spammers ......by
golly!!!

ftp://ftp.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/advertising/how-to/part1

Donut is correct Mr. Gazooka. That faq is the generally accepted
convention concerning advertisements in Usenet newsgroups. The
relevant section is this one:

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5. .signature advertisements.

...

Typically, it is considered bad manners to put more than four lines of
information in your .signature, regardless of what those four lines might
say or contain. Gigantic ASCII pictures of dragons, for example, are
annoying when you have to see them every time a certain person posts.

Similarly, it's considered bad manners to put an advertisement in your
.signature and then post a lot of empty or nearly-empty articles simply
to get your .signature into various newsgroups.

On the other hand, if you post meaningful, responsible messages in groups
you're actually interested in, and those messages happen to have the
address of your Web page tacked on at the end, few people will complain.

Just keep .signature advertisements extremely short and sweet. Let your
Web page contain the sales pitch -- the .signature should usually be
little more than a listing of your URL and perhaps a mention of what sort
of business you're in.

Restraint and responsibility are everything -- if you've got those, people
will sit up and listen to you.
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As you can plainly see Mr. Gazooka your potty-mouthed tirade is
out of line. Steve's .signature conforms in all respects to Usenet
convention and is a perfectly acceptable form of advertisement on
a Usenet newsgroup devoted to fishing.

It's ignorant fools like yourself, Mr. Gazooka, who give the rest
of us SPAM kops a bad reputation. ;-)
Oh Mr Fartinberries...........this gospel truth you just pulled out ,
shove it back.