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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