If it could be reduced to that then it wouldn't be a big deal. Hell, even
if it wouldn't be only at the bottom it's not a big deal. I was just
mentioning that there is a lot of stuff sent already that doesn't need to be
sent. I'll leave the rest of the note that you sent as a reply to the list
as an example of what happens when the replies are not editted. The notes
become incredibly long with little to no additional input.
To me it's just a part of being on the digest list. I live with it. It
would be nice if more people would edit their posts. Adding the advertising
would be another 2-300 lines of info to scroll through every day because it
would show up in every single post that doesn't get editted and each reply
to that post, and on and on... Unless Mark can do something to weed out the
advert dupes in the bodies of the replies :-)
Anyway, I don't really care. If I don't want to see them I'm pretty good at
skimming over them. It used to bother me more when I was on a dial up at
1200 baud and not only did I waste time not reading the stuff but I had to
download it first :-)
Have fun.
Ron Madurski
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Murray [mailto:mattm@optonline.net]
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 12:49 PM
> To: Madurski, Ronald M.; autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Bad tasting spam
>
>
> Usually the advertising stamp is at the very end of the
> digest, with perhaps
> additional info on how to remove yourself from the list/digest/etc.
>
> Matt Murray
>
> mattm@optonline.net
>
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> Copyright 2001, Matthew D. Murray. Permission to reproduce
> these words
> on the list explicitly granted.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Madurski, Ronald M." <RONALD.M.MADURSKI@saic.com>
> To: <autox@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 11:22 AM
> Subject: Re: Bad tasting spam
>
>
> > Pretty hard to do if you are on the digest version.
> >
> > I'm not saying that he shouldn't do it, or that I think
> it's a bad idea.
> > Just that A LOT of people forget that there are digest
> readers out there
> and
> > include entire messages in a single line reply, many times with no
> relevance
> > to the message they are replying to in the first place.
> >
> > Man that sounded like whining, oh well, tough patooties (sp?) :-)
> >
> > >Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:49:00 -0700
> > >From: "Rick Brown" <free2000@quixnet.net>
> > >Subject: Re: Bad tasting spam
> > >
> > >I see nothing wrong with adding a subtle tag line like
> mark has below,
> many
> > >of us do it already for our own businesses If you don't
> want to see it,
> > >don't scroll down past the name..
> > >
> > >Rick Brown
> > >FP 240Z
> >
> > Ronald M. Madurski
> > Senior Systems Administrator
> >
> >
> > "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind
> is a faithful
> > servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has
> forgotten
> > the gift."
> > - - Albert Einstein.
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