Date sent: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:49:54 +1100 (EST)
From: DaZZa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Re: Alleged spam
<<SNIPPED>>
> Charlie's point - and it's a valid one - is that you spout anti-spam
> email addresses - then add spam to the end of your message. You're a
> hypocrite.
So any advertising is to be regarded as spam?
> > I have a signature which is added to the bottom of each email I send
> > out. If that signature advertises something I use or have, what's
> > wrong with that? Your own signature advertises you own company, maybe
> > that should be classified as spam.
>
> Complete and utter garbage. Your signature is an unsolicited attempt to
> make yourself money, or someone else, money. It lands in my inbox in
> messages I have no control over {except unsubscribing from the
> information list I'm connected to, which I don't want to do} which
> appears in every message you post.
If I change my signature to show my business name, address etc, will
that still be regarded as advertising? After all, I run the business,
getting my business name out to the public is what advertising is about
for me. If I advertise my business through my signature, then I am also
guilty of making an unsolicited attempt to make myself money (it's my
business after all), except I'll be making a lot more money than with
any internet advertising program.
> > If anything, your post is more spam than mine, I put something whorth
> > reading, I don't just send my signature as an email by itself, nor do
> > I post a single line of flame and tack on a large signature file:
>
> Charlie is giving his contact details - a completely acceptable use of a
> signature.
It could be argued that all that is required to contact anyone on this
list is their email address, something that is (or should be) in the
headers of each message, therefore, no signature should be used at all.
> You, on the other hand, are touting some get rich quick scheme - a not
> so acceptable one.
Get rich quick?? I can think of far faster ways to get rich! If I
wanted to get rich, I would hardly be earning a measly 50c an hour.
<<SNIPPED>>
> Try posting with a signature like that into alt.sysadmin.recovery or
> alt.tech-support.recovery and watch them apply a hefty LART to you post
> haste. Hell, pick ANY tech newsgroup or mailing list and try it - you'll
> be kicked out so fast your head'll spin.
Gee, strange thing, out of the 10 or 12 "tech" mailing lists I
subscribe to, only this one has claimed my sig is spam.
> Today's "standards" are made up by clowns who are only in the net for a
> quick buck, and who have no clue or regard for nettiqute - nor have any
> desire to learn.
If we are going to start referring to proper nettiquite, maybe we had
better do it correctly. No more sigs over 2 lines of 40 chars.
> Try not to lumber yourself wit hthem.
>
> DaZZa - the .sig-less one
>
Aussie (sig removed)
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