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On Fri, 04 Apr 1997 17:48:45 +1000, David Bednall
<dbednall@melbpc.org.au> displayed amazing bravery by writing the
following:

>Lastly, some people have complained that this material does not belong
>in some of these Australian newsgroups, and yes, it doesn't.  But like
>any other advertiser, I have to make my little-known service noticed,
>(in particular, by high school students) and I really don't think that
>the very occassional ad for the USSU's webpage in various Australian
>newsgroups is such a cardinal sin.  That's one ad every month, at most.

Look, last thing I want is to be guilty of the same spam as you, but I
just had to reply to the above rubbish.

Spamming newsgroups is not acceptable full stop. Usenet is for
discussing relevant topics, not for advertising products or services.
You may consider one posting a month to be of little consequence, but it
does matter when you consider how much traffic it causes through our
already limited bandwidth. Further, if it was acceptable for one
advertiser to use that logic, then it could become acceptable for one
thousand advertisers. After all, many companies would consider their
products to be a "service".  I would not like to see the newsgroups I
frequent being clogged with monthly ads for software, phone services,
pay tv etc.

The best solution for you would be to identify newsgroups that are
relevant to the topic of your spam (eg aus.students) and post there
alone, and leave the non-relevant forums (such as the SF groups) out of
it.

And not post binaries with it...!

Your continued arrogance and selfishness astounds me.


...W

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