🚀 go-pugleaf

I'm going to let this one pass :-) The author is obviously UserNet
literate. Technically, this service _could_ be used by an Acorn
programmer (though of course it won't). It is also gratifyingly
short.

In message <4cjnjh$70j@tron.sci.fi> Jyri Hovila wrote:

> [snip]
> NOTICE 3:	Offers like this usually raise a storm  of  protest,  mostly
> 		because of their "commercial nature",  I  guess.  If  you're
> 		thinking about  writing  me  a  mail  full  of  four  letter
> 		words, please pick up your calculator and check out how  big
> 		your phone bill would be if  you  sent  manually  a  100  KB
> 		archive to hundreds of ftp-sites. I'm really  not  going  to
> 		get rich with this system. If you're ready to take  care  of
> 		this kind of service for free, just mail me  and  I'll  hand
> 		the "business" over to you!

Clever!

> IMPORTANT:	As it's impossible for me  to  convince  you  that  I'm  not
> ~~~~~~~~~~	trying to cheat you, the system works this way: You send  me
> 		some "registration data" I need to start the  service  (your
> 		E-mail address, telephone number etc...), and the service is
> 		active right away. If I  don't  receive  your  "registration
> 		fee" within two weeks, I'll close the service  until  I  get
> 		the money. This means, that you have about one week to  test
> 		me. Also, I'll give you  my  snail-mail  address,  telephone
> 		number etc., so that  you're  not  "depending"  just  on  my
> 		e-mail address.
> 

Would you buy a used car from this man :-)

> Please mail me for further information and/or opening the  service!  All
> kind of feedback is also welcomed and WANTED! Please let me  hear  about
> you!

This post + a web URL, posted to .announce, could just about pass.
I could live with it if all commercial posts were like this (with
the above conditions).

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