Doug Henwood trolls Yoshie:
On Sep 4, 2006, at 1:22 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
I posted an interesting NYT article on China's rising production costs
(stagflation, anyone?), a new study (the first of its kind?), by
economist Robert Kaestner, on the impact of anti-Arab/anti-Muslim
prejudice on the wages of Arab and Muslim men, etc., but they do not
appear to stir up any interest.
Maybe people feel like they're being spammed, rather than engaged in
conversation.
Doug
Anyone who feels 'spammed' because someone else posts on a topic of
general interest to a list needs to find a slower communication medium,
like telegraph, teletype, or snailmail. Personally, I feel "spammed"
when their are long involved discussions of pareto diagrams, and
stochastics, but I simply ignore the thread when it gets tedious.
What YOU do could 'feel' like 'trolling' to some, but no one (except
perhaps me) calls you on it, because you are just stating your belief,
right or wong, in good faith... right?
Yoshie is just posting, on her belief, right or wrong, in good faith,
that a certain percentage (mean or median [ongoing sneer] ) of [pen-l]
readers ARE interested. Personally, I'm not really interested in Iranian
LGBT issues, but I DID manage to find an interesting tidbit in one of
Yoshie's recent posts regarding islam and Saudi Arabia's hold on the
muslim faith, and I threw in my $0.02 worth. That's what lists are for...
It's true that some people, and I can't imagine this is the case in the
western industrialized nations in 2006, pay by the byte for their
internet, and it might be necessary to filter posts, but what Yoshie is
doing doesn't qualify as spam under any circumstances, and message
filters easily eliminate unwanted posts by subject, author, or by words
in the body of the message.
Definitions of spam on the Web [Google Define:] :
...My personal favorite: "Delicious "meat" in a can!"
To indiscriminately send unsolicited, unwanted, irrelevant, or
inappropriate messages, especially commercial advertising in mass
quantities. Noun: electronic "junk mail".
www.tecrime.com/0gloss.htm
is unsolicited e-mail. The term spamming is also sometimes used by
search engines to mean web sites that try to gain a higher listing by
submitting hundreds of almost identical pages or by inserting hundreds
of keywords within a web document.
www.smallbizonline.co.uk/glossary_of_internet_terms.php
Spam refers to electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings. Some
people define spam even more generally as any unsolicited e-mail. In
addition to being a nuisance, spam also eats up a lot of network
bandwidth. Because the Internet is a public network, little can be done
to prevent spam, just as it is impossible to prevent junk mail. However,
the use of software filters in e-mail programs can be used to remove
most spam sent through e-mail.
nces.ed.gov/pubs2003/secureweb/glossary.asp
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Spam is repeated use of more than one grenade in one part of a map in
the quake mod Team Fortress. It also broadly incorporates overuse of the
in-game messaging system and excessive setting of detpacks (large-scale
explosions).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(Team_Fortress)
Spam is a popular Monty Python sketch, first broadcast in 1970. In the
sketch, two customers are trying to order a breakfast without SPAM from
a menu which includes the processed meat product in every entree. The
term spam (in electronic communication) is derived from this sketch.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(Monty_Python)
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