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amillar@netcom.com (Alan Millar) writes:

> John is only guilty of not including a disclaimer for the humor-impaired.
> 
> Go back and read it again.  This time imagine you hear sarcasm.

Well, I certainly don't think so.  John's posting, combined with a 
equally unpleasant e-mail message, seemed a little more than scarcasm to 
me.  Plus consider the fact that John is a commercial site charging his 
users for net.access (this is fine, he is providing a service and he 
should be able to recover costs and something for his time) -- but he 
can't distinguish between this and sending unsolicited advertisements via 
news or mail -- at the recipients expense.

> The point was that Steve Frampton's quote included the advertising, thereby
> propagating it.  I'm sure Steve didn't intend it, which is what was
> meant by "Even when you don't mean to" above.

You're absolutely wrong -- I did *not* include the advertising.  I 
included only so much of it as to give people an idea as to what I was 
complaining about, and *specifically* deleted the contact address, about 
50-75 lines of "Why should you purchase this", and other related 
diatribe.

I suggest you read a thread from the beginning before commenting on it.

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