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Article #402Re: the futures guy
From: Carey Barnett
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 00:00
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Dear Mr. Futures Guy, I agree with Beer Gut. You've made numerous false assumptions, as evidenced by your postings. On the other hand, I think you're on the right track, and if you take a lesson here you'll be well served. If you just get mad, you'll prove Ol' Beergut right. beergut <beergut@ilos.net> wrote in article <33BC826F.4D89@ilos.net>... > wtitten by the futuresguy@geocities.com: > > i assume by 'avalanche' you mean mailbombing. this threat has been duly > noted. you accuse me of spamming the wpg.general ng. i disagree, for > the following reasons: > a) i trade the winnipeg commodity exchange on a regular basis > b) i have clients in winnipeg who are interested in what i have to post > in that particular ng > c) wpg. is relevant to commodity trading and related subjects, esp. > agriculture > d) .general - by definition - means many varied subjects > e) mailbombing is an abuse of netiquette and of an internet provider's > services. i wouldn't recommend it. ilos and geocities have also received > copies of this email, for future reference. > > if you wish to get into a debate with me, smarten up, improve your > grammar, then come back and try again. > > > Dear Mr.Hill > > > Well here I am smartening up! You assume by avalanche I meant e-mail > bombing. You have assumed wrong! I was refering to the avalanche of > complaints you will be getting if you continue to spam certain .gen > groups. > > I suggest to you that your customers would be better served if you > actually spent time working for them. A quick check in dejanews reveals > that you post on average 3-4 times a day. Do you consider your > customers so illerate as they need to read your advertizing (I call it > spam) 3-4 times daily? I also am wondering why, living in Calgary, that > you do not include them in your SERVICE!! Fear not, I have included them > here, as I am sure it was just an oversite. You say you have clients > here, well I doubt it but maybe you can get 1 or 10 to post a reply to > this thread. To me sir, you are advertizing for customers, which does > not belong in a .gen group as you full well know. I have included all > the other ng's that you post to in the header, so you know where to > post. I can only conclude from this that you are advertizing ( or > spamming). Please feel free to correct my grammer as you see fit, and > you can smarten me up at your leisure. > > ps. I have left out your place of employment on purpose, as I do not > wish to cause you personal harm, or your employer. My sole purpose is to > direct you to the proper groups to post, ahhhh but that you already > know, don't you. > > regards beergut >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1083bf,1cbe8b28c120d3af X-Google-Attributes: gid1083bf,public X-Google-Thread: 10d077,1cbe8b28c120d3af X-Google-Attributes: gid10d077,public X-Google-Thread: 11f34e,1cbe8b28c120d3af X-Google-Attributes: gid11f34e,public X-Google-Thread: fee3a,1cbe8b28c120d3af X-Google-Attributes: gidfee3a,public X-Google-Thread: 10f7bc,1cbe8b28c120d3af X-Google-Attributes: gid10f7bc,public X-Google-Thread: fcec7,1cbe8b28c120d3af X-Google-Attributes: gidfcec7,public X-Google-Thread: 110c06,1cbe8b28c120d3af X-Google-Attributes: gid110c06,public X-Google-Thread: 108c64,1cbe8b28c120d3af X-Google-Attributes: gid108c64,public From: "Carey Barnett" <cbarnett@idirect.com> Subject: Re: the futures guy Date: 1997/07/05 Message-ID: <01bc893b$96c993c0$0c5488cf@careybar> X-Deja-AN: 254771194 References: <33BC826F.4D89@ilos.net> Newsgroups: wpg.general,ab.misc,misc.industry.electronic.marketplace,van.general,misc.invest.futures,misc.invest.options,misc.invest.technical,misc.invest.canada,misc.invest.marketplace,calgary.gen