:26 PM
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Fw: Need winding machine?
I thought the message I forwarded to this reflector might be of
interest to other Elecrafters, and I did indicate that it was spam.
It was not intended to start a controversy.
I apologize to anyone it might have
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Earl W Cunningham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
I just received the following e-mail about a toroid winding machine.
Perhaps it may interest some of you Elecrafters. It was spam, so take it
for what it's worth.
73, de Earl, K6SE
Hi Earl,
Interestingly I received the
Mike S wrote:
It's exactly because of clueless newbies like you that there is a spam
problem in the first place.
(The rest of his e-mail censored because of foul language)
==
I have NEVER bought anything nor visited a Web site advertised by a
spammer.
This clueless newbie has been into
Trev, G3ZYY wrote:
Interestingly I received the same mail here. I suspect that as we were
both in this group when the discussion about toroid winders took place
over a year ago and many of us were looking at various sites to do with
these machines, this is probably targeted advertising rather
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 07:54:05AM -0700, Earl W Cunningham wrote:
If that is true, I wonder how he got my (or yours and others) e-mail
address because I have never searched the Web for a toroid winding
machine nor have I ever visited any spammer's Web site.
Perhaps a web search for toroid
Well, it seems that Earl has chosen to demonstrate his ignorance of accepted
Internet protocol by not only spamming (itself a felony crime in the US), but
by forwarding private correspondence to a public forum. I have been careful to
respond to communications regarding this subject only via
Just do a Google search on toroid winding. You don't have to look far
to turn up Elecraft list posts and postings from lists.contesting.com
where the subject has been mentioned, complete with full email addresses.
73,
--
Julian, G4ILO
G4ILO's Shack: http://www.tech-pro.net/g4ilo
Earl W
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Fw: Need winding machine?
Well, it seems that Earl has chosen to demonstrate his ignorance of
accepted Internet protocol by not only spamming (itself a felony crime in
the US), but by forwarding private correspondence to a public forum. I have
been careful to respond
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Julian, G4ILO wrote:
Just do a Google search on toroid winding. You don't have to look far to
turn up Elecraft list posts and postings from lists.contesting.com where the
subject has been mentioned, complete with full email addresses.
But to get back to some basicsDo
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Douglas Westover wrote:
So I guess if Earl had said I ran across this torrid winding machine that
might
be of interest to Elecrafters, and had made no mention of spam, it would
have
been okay?
Would that involve forwarding the spam message to the list?
Or perhaps he
That's an impossible question to answer, because it depends how you define
spam. To some, it's any unsolicited email. To others, it's any email they
didn't ask to receive and aren't interested in.
The fact that a number of people did find the email interesting seems to me
to vindicate Earl's
G3VVT suggested to K6SE:
Interestingly I received the same mail here. I suspect that as we were
both in this group when the discussion about toroid winders took place
over a year ago and many of us were looking at various sites to do with
these machines, this is probably targeted advertising
I just received the following e-mail about a toroid winding machine.
Perhaps it may interest some of you Elecrafters. It was spam, so take it
for what it's worth.
73, de Earl, K6SE
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From: Jack Feng [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 13 Apr
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Earl W Cunningham wrote:
I just received the following e-mail about a toroid winding machine.
Perhaps it may interest some of you Elecrafters. It was spam, so take it
for what it's worth.
Thanksmy local ISP traps these as spam...never figured it would get sent via
DO NOT forward spam to a list. Most certainly DO NOT - NEVER, EVER - buy a
product advertised via spam. To do so is the act of a naif, as it only
encourages more spam. I'm trying to think of any reasonable criteria by which
you shouldn't be immediately dispelled from the list for spamming
Fortunately, cooler heads than Mike S are in charge here.
I hope.
I find the concept of a toroid-winding machine intriguing, and now it's got me
wondering just how it works.
--
72, Ron McDowell - W5RCM / ZS1MCD
w5rcm at volente dot us
Austin TX / Hermanus ZA
On 12 Apr 2005 20:39:09 -0400,
On Tuesday 12 April 2005 17:49, Ron McDowell - W5RCM / ZS1MCD wrote:
Fortunately, cooler heads than Mike S are in charge here.
I hope.
I find the concept of a toroid-winding machine intriguing, and now it's got
me wondering just how it works.
--
72, Ron McDowell - W5RCM / ZS1MCD
w5rcm
There are always mean, bossy, overreacting people who want to be the
police of the world. Don't let them ruin your day, Earl.
On Apr 12, 2005, at 8:39 PM, Mike S wrote:
DO NOT forward spam to a list. Most certainly DO NOT - NEVER, EVER -
buy a product advertised via spam. To do so is the act
W8UR (Mike S) wrote:
DO NOT forward spam to a list. Most certainly DO NOT - NEVER, EVER - buy
a product advertised via spam. To do so is the act of a naif, as it only
encourages more spam. I'm trying to think of any reasonable criteria by
which you shouldn't be immediately dispelled from the list
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Earl W
Cunningham
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 12:27 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Fw: Need winding machine?
W8UR (Mike S) wrote:
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