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Not without a legitimate address to forward it to!
Sorry, I guess that my ISP didn't accept my munged e-mail address. the underscore boxhead at hotmail dot com cheers, Box -- Boxington Headmaker -= Excess is never enough =- -= Morituri Nolumus Mori =- -= Go to the Buddhist Burger place and say: "Make me one with everything" =- ---------------------------------------------- |
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(Chris.B) wrote in message . com...
Stephen Tonkin wrote in message ... M13 wrote: Some of you may be interested in a new web site dedicated to used telescope equipment swapping for the UK and Ireland. People can place "for sale" and "wanted" adverts free of charge. The site can be seen at www.astrobuysell.com/uk This joker is also un-munging spoiled addresses from Chris's site and spamming them with the same post (is he too stupid to understand that the reason we spoil them is because we *don't* want spam? I, for one, will not be supporting this spammer's web site. Best, Stephen You got the right bloke Stephen? There's been some discussion on Yahoo uk.telescopes. He's not selling anything. AFAIKT. He seems quite reasonable. There's spam and there's spam. Somebody selling something irrelevant is an ever increasing irritant. A free advertising service for used astro equipment is not.IMO Though commercial spam from astro equipment providers would be. I'm prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt. Until the commercial ads start and/or spam increase noticably or some other problem crops up. Perhaps the answer would be to use a fresh e-mail address to check if it's being mined? It has a way to go before it reaches AA's popularity. But then it's just getting off the ground. THe attraction of images, instant display and the ability to correct the ad are all plus points IMO. If I'm wrong then I'm wrong. (As usual).g Chris.B First an apology – it was not my intention to spam. I would merely like to let people know about the web site I created, which took me many days to do. I am not selling anything. I have a full time job with a large corporation and I am a long time amateur astronomer who often gets involved with Club activities. I have seen others post messages inviting people to visit their web pages, so I thought my message to this newsgroup would have been ok. Regarding the direct email to Stephen, I've already emailed him directly apologizing to him (I hope he accepts). I should have been more careful and realized he "encoded" his email address because he does not wish to receive any unsolicited email. Because I too hate spam, I wanted to let only the interested people know about my web site, therefore I emailed a few people who are currently selling their used astronomy gear and told them about my web site. There will be no further emails as I hope word of mouth will give more exposure to my web site. By the way, this was the only flaming / negative feedback I've received so far. Others have welcomed my web site and like it (like Chris.B above) Best Regards, Paul. |
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M13 wrote:
[...] I thought my message to this newsgroup would have been ok. For the record, I want to make it clear that I was not objecting to the announcement on this NG (which I thought was entirely appropriate), but to the unsolicited junk/bulk email. (And I 'm still trying to figure out the point of spamming people who will see the announcement in the NG!) Anyway, I've said my piece -- I will shut the %$&@ up now. Best, Stephen -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Stephen Tonkin | ATM Resources; Astro-Tutorials; Astro Books + + (N51.162 E0.995) | http://www.astunit.com + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + |
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M13 wrote:
[...] I thought my message to this newsgroup would have been ok. For the record, I want to make it clear that I was not objecting to the announcement on this NG (which I thought was entirely appropriate), but to the unsolicited junk/bulk email. (And I 'm still trying to figure out the point of spamming people who will see the announcement in the NG!) Anyway, I've said my piece -- I will shut the %$&@ up now. Best, Stephen -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Stephen Tonkin | ATM Resources; Astro-Tutorials; Astro Books + + (N51.162 E0.995) | http://www.astunit.com + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + |
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Paul Kelly wrote:
Totally off topic really, but I couldnt help but marvel at the extent to which the above two sentences would have been utterly unfathomable to anyone just a decade or so ago :-) Equally off topic, and horribly pedantic: Not quite utterly. :-) "Troffed" was BBS parlance over a decade ago (usually with respect to files). I don't know when "spam" came in , but Canter and Siegel did their loathsome bit for it in April 1994. Haven't a clue about "munged". Best, Stephen -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Stephen Tonkin | ATM Resources; Astro-Tutorials; Astro Books + + (N51.162 E0.995) | http://www.astunit.com + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + |
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Paul Kelly wrote:
Totally off topic really, but I couldnt help but marvel at the extent to which the above two sentences would have been utterly unfathomable to anyone just a decade or so ago :-) Equally off topic, and horribly pedantic: Not quite utterly. :-) "Troffed" was BBS parlance over a decade ago (usually with respect to files). I don't know when "spam" came in , but Canter and Siegel did their loathsome bit for it in April 1994. Haven't a clue about "munged". Best, Stephen -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Stephen Tonkin | ATM Resources; Astro-Tutorials; Astro Books + + (N51.162 E0.995) | http://www.astunit.com + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + |
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"Fleetie" wrote:
what are we hiding her? Telescopes of mass destruction? Well maybe _he's_ not selling them, but imagine what the mirror from a 10 metre scope atop a mountain could _do_ to something if it were used to focus sunlight! r=5m; == A ~= 78.5 m^2 P_incident ~= 1kWm^-2 == P_tot ~= 78.5 kW That's quite a toaster! It could spoil your whole day if it was pointing at you! Crikey - I hope the Americans aren't reading this. They'll all trade in their goto scopes for this latest gizmo. Get the Meade with DAGS, the world's first Digital Auto Gotcher system. No Frenchman will ever kick sand in your face again, no German will ever get near a deckchair and livel... Cheers Martin -------------- Martin Frey N 51 02 E 0 47 -------------- |
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