From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9744 invoked by alias); 26 May 2006 18:54:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 9735 invoked by uid 22791); 26 May 2006 18:54:53 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 26 May 2006 18:54:52 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FjhSP-0004oU-Qf for cygwin-talk@cygwin.com; Fri, 26 May 2006 20:54:45 +0200 Received: from 65.207.213.226 ([65.207.213.226]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 26 May 2006 20:54:45 +0200 Received: from mwoehlke by 65.207.213.226 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 26 May 2006 20:54:45 +0200 To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com From: mwoehlke Subject: Re: No postnews or other Usenet news utilities? Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 18:54:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <00a701c680e1$0cd15480$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060420) In-Reply-To: <00a701c680e1$0cd15480$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q2/txt/msg00375.txt.bz2 Dave Korn wrote: > On 26 May 2006 16:02, mwoehlke wrote: >> Therefore, by >> subscribing to such a group, you are stating your intentions to receive >> "junk mail" ("spam"?) targeted to that audience. > > That is a thoroughly false impression. Your equation of "advertising == > spam" is utterly wrong. Spam has a definition, and it's not your say-so. Now > go find out what a "breidbart index" is, and don't post any more uninformed > idle speculation until you have some FACTS to back up your posts. Gee, welcome to humanity! Note that I had a *question mark* in the above post, meaning "some people might *consider* this 'spam'". Of course, subscribing to it means it is no longer - technically - "spam", because it is solicited. -- Matthew Feed the hippo. Love the hippo. Run from the hippo.