"Buffalo" <Eric@nada.com.invalid> wrote in message news:i19sfb$1sf$1@news.eternal-september.org...
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> Anonymous wrote:
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>> I have nothing against Spyware Blaster, but imagine the huge waste
>> of bandwidth if every antimalware producer in the world posted an
>> announcement on Usenet for every update and every one of their
>> fanboys replied with "Thank you Siljaline" type drivel to every one
>> of those announcements.
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>> Now I will await your response telling me how your announcements
>> are not thinly disguised ads and how they provide a valuable service
>> to SpywareBlaster users who are too tight to donate and too stupid
>> to check for updates, or some such self-serving crap.
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> Go suck an egg.
> Buffalo

He/she is right. The announcments are ads. Kaspersky, Eset,
Symantec, and more, release many updates each day. If all
vendors flood security newsgroups with ads, Usenet will be
buried in bull****.