Firewall Recommendations

[Randall Bart]

'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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[Jay T. Blocksom]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 18:46:01 GMT, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, Randall Bart
<Barticus@att.spam.net> wrote:
>
[snip]
>
> He means it's spam because it's advertising for particular products.
[snip]

Ahhh... I see.

> He's wrong of course, since it was an opinion expressed in a conversation
> in a single newsgroup, not an unsolicited broadcast.
[snip]

Not to mention the fact that it wasn't "advertising" at all.

> I think he believes
> that praising Microsoft products is just normal conversation while
> praising anything else is spam. Microsoft calls this philosophy
> "software neutral".

<smile>

Indeed.

This amusing little sidebar prompted be to spend two or three minutes
Googling the illustrious "M.L."'s posting history -- and your conclusions
now make perfect sense.

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Jay T. Blocksom
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