Re: Spamming the retrocomputing groups about "Wazaboo"

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

"Jason Whorton" <jason at microxl.com> wrote in message news:<v3ebsbh10q37fb@corp.supernews.com>...
> Yes, please slow down on the Wazaboo posts.  You post around every two days,
> but sometimes twice in one day.  That is just too often.
> 
> To Scott Alfter - Posting his BBS phone number in his sig won't help, as he
> pretty much doesn't post anything except his BBS phone number.  That's all I
> see in the last three months, anyway.
> 
> Thank you,
> Jason Whorton
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "Scott Alfter" <salfter@salfter.dyndns.org> wrote in message
> news:sLEZ9.26682$LA4.2642139@news1.west.cox.net...
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> > In article <738983226@f115.n117.z1.fidonet.org>,
> > Alexey Ratcheson <nospam@checkisinthemail.com> wrote:
> > >Dosius wrote:
> > >> It's starting to get noisy here with all these posts from Alexey
> > >> Ratchison here and there on Usenet asking people to call some
> > >> long-distance number to see some BBS that we hardly know about.
> > >
> > >Sorry About that,. I am just trying to drum up callers. I have run a BBS
>  in
> > >the early 90's the mid 90's and now this BBS.
> >
> > Putting your BBS's phone number in your sig is OK...it's what I did with
>  the
> > Skunk Works back in the day, and it's what everybody does with website
>  URLs
> > today.  Posting every single day (or nearly so) with nothing more than a
> > "call my BBS" message would by many reasonable measures be considered
> > spamming, especially if it appears that's nearly all that somebody ever
> > posts in a given newsgroup.
> >
> >   _/_   Scott Alfter
> >  / v \  salfter@salfter.dyndns.org
> > (IIGS(  http://alfter.us            Top-posting!
> >  \_^_/  pkill -9 /bin/laden         >What is the most annoying thing on
>  Usenet?
> >
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Well, at least I'm not alone in being a *little* miffed by the
excessive postings.  Someone's got to say something, right? ;)

-uso.