Re: Rubywand's new award! Plus, Answers

[wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com (Will Smith)]

On 9 Mar 1998 01:31:25 GMT, pfg@cs.rmit.edu.au (Paul Francis Gilbert)
wrote:

|>That's my understanding of the word "SPAM" as well. Although, as I think
|>has already been pointed out, it isn't just UCE. It can be a news posting
|>to multiple newsgroups to which are not appropriate for the message, and it
|>need not even be for a commercial purpose: it may be advertising someone's
|>new website, for example.

right...  this is what i was getting at when i said that flames ==
SPAM...  i've seen that several of these threads are cross-posted, but
half the time, i don't bother to look where my replies are going...
<shrug>

|>I've always been amused by the whole Spam thing: the original Monty Python
|>SPAM song that gave birth to it, and how pissed off the manufacturers of
|>SPAM in the US must be about the basically derogatory usage their product
|>has become ;-)

you mean Hormel?  i don't recall hearing any complaints out of
them....  (of course, that doesn't mean they HAVEN'T said
something....)

can't be any worse than the stories i've heard about Vegemite...  <g>
does it REALLY taste as nasty as they say?
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