Author: Jeroen van Dorp
Date: 15:46:03 11/23/03
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On November 23, 2003 at 13:43:01, margolies,marc wrote: >Hi Mike! thank you for responding. alot of people find his reviews enjoyable. >I do not criticize his review. I criticize his post here. I worked in sales for >many years-- and if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...that should be >enough. But it doesn't walk like a duck, and it doesn't talk like a duck. > 8 links to the same website within a post is a solid clue. Demanding >that anyone read ancilliary propaganda to raise a claim of spamming is too high >a bar to set. And there are no guarantees that this person won't add >advertisements to his reviews as he is clearly looking for some kind of >sponsorship based on style and tone. >Any post organized around prices and shopping is sales promotion without regard >to whether it promotes dedicated handhelds or other giftware. Yet it isn't a post organized around prices and shopping. >Perhaps the poster >naively took a sales template out of a book of business letters in order to make > an effective post here. Perhaps? What is your message called? "Moderation: perhaps spamming"? >The issue in my mind (yeah in my mind) is whether we want this board filled with >chess programming discussions or a surfeit of sales literature koshered just >enough so that it cannot be immediately banned. Agitate against sales literature, and not against a site with chess computer reviews. > We are opening a very ugly door >here. Indeed. A door of poor judgement, misinformation and wrong accusations. You're right we should keep it closed. J.
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