'Twas Sun, 20 Jul 2003 08:08:20 -0400 when all alt.privacy.spyware stood
in awe as Jay T. Blocksom <usenet01+SPAMBLOCK@appropriate-tech.net>
uttered:

> > >For email and newsgroups, you can use Netscape. I prefer using Pegasus
> > >and Free Agent.
> >
> > That sounds like spamming.
>
>Say what?
>
>Both David Harris (the author of Pegasus Mail) and Forté Internet Software,
>Inc. (the producers of Agent and Free Agent) are *staunchly* anti-spam. So
>exactly what are you blathering on about?

He means it's spam because it's advertising for particular products. He's
wrong of course, since it was an opinion expressed in a conversation in a
single newsgroup, not an unsolicited broadcast. I think he believes that
praising Microsoft products is just normal conversation while praising
anything else is spam. Microsoft calls this philosophy "software
neutral".
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