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Article #243Re: Those goddamn car ads and what to do about them....
From: Joe
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 00:00
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Gee, someone posts something without thinking. How typical of them! If you want to buy a car, then why don't you look in the rec.autos.marketplace or other relevant groups. Car ads are ok in local groups only if they are local. "Jeremy L. Radosh" <jradosh@attmail.com> wrote: *Gee, someone tries to sell something in a forsale newsgroup. * *How horrible of them! ;) * *Having purchased my "new" used car through Classified 2000, I support *them wholeheartedly ! They provide a consistent format for viewing *information. * *Imagine if Classified2000 didn't exist. Everyone who is selling a *car would put their own postings on the newsgroup. Each person would *use a different layout and terminology. You wouldn't be able *to filter out the postings AT ALL, and I'd have to read each ad *with more diligence (sp?) rather than just scan the ads Classifieds2000 *puts out. * *In this light, Classified2000 is doing you all a favor by standardizing *the car ad content. Filter away m'boy ! ! ! * * *Michael Schneider wrote: *> *> I urge everyone in Minnesota, to, without delay, add "K mi $" (with *> spaces, period and capitalization as shown) to their newsreader's global *> subject filters with case sensitivity ON. If your newsreader does not *> support filtering, GET ONE THAT DOES!!! (Netscape is a lousy newsreader.) *> Mac users obtain YA-Newswatcher (do a web search and you'll find it to *> download somewhere). *> *> Persons in other states may follow similar proceedures. *> *> At some point the spammers may change there automatic posting procedure *> and change the subject title sequence. Update filters accordingly. *> *> ------------- *>
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 101491,92d1325d113d52dc X-Google-Attributes: gid101491,public X-Google-Thread: 111dad,92d1325d113d52dc X-Google-Attributes: gid111dad,public X-Google-Thread: 102b99,92d1325d113d52dc X-Google-Attributes: gid102b99,public X-Google-Thread: 112862,92d1325d113d52dc X-Google-Attributes: gid112862,public X-Google-Thread: 1132e2,92d1325d113d52dc X-Google-Attributes: gid1132e2,public X-Google-Thread: 10657e,92d1325d113d52dc X-Google-Attributes: gid10657e,public X-Google-Thread: 106985,92d1325d113d52dc X-Google-Attributes: gid106985,public X-Google-Thread: 100714,f64ebbf00b96cf35 X-Google-Attributes: gid100714,public From: Joe@blow.com (Joe) Subject: Re: Those goddamn car ads and what to do about them.... Date: 1996/12/06 Message-ID: <32a7bb82.39556566@news.doit.wisc.edu> X-Deja-AN: 202641635 references: <32a49844.0@206.152.61.33> <msch19-0412960602040001@dial002.skypoint.net> <32A5ADB6.6FE4@attmail.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: mn.forsale,wi.forsale,ia.market,ca.forsale,md.forsale,fl.forsale,ny.forsale,ga.forsale,ms.forsale,mi.forsale,me.forsale,wa.forsale,dc.forsale,pe.forsale,pn.forsale,nj.forsale,etc.adnausium