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  #11  
Old July 11th 03, 02:53 PM
Robert Geake
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Sorry Chris but any thing i have not requested be sent
to me is spam and therefore unwanted. No mater what
the content.

The sender of said spam is asked to stop, if they dont
they will find thier inbox becomming very very busy.

Any way the site seems a bit geeky and complex for
any to get really interested.

R

"Chris.B" wrote in message
om...
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 y#
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



  #12  
Old July 11th 03, 03:34 PM
Pete Lawrence
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:01:23 +0100, "Steve M."
wrote:

PROBABLY BECAUSE YOUR MATE HASN'T GOT THE MONEY!


Nope - that's not the one.

BUT FOR ANY PROBLEM JUST ASK STEPHEN TONKING ...HE IS AN EXPERT IN EBAY
(CHECK ID: SFTONKIN)


Is TONKING a verb?

PS. What's the matter with your caps lock key - not working of
something?



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Old July 11th 03, 03:34 PM
Pete Lawrence
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:01:23 +0100, "Steve M."
wrote:

PROBABLY BECAUSE YOUR MATE HASN'T GOT THE MONEY!


Nope - that's not the one.

BUT FOR ANY PROBLEM JUST ASK STEPHEN TONKING ...HE IS AN EXPERT IN EBAY
(CHECK ID: SFTONKIN)


Is TONKING a verb?

PS. What's the matter with your caps lock key - not working of
something?



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  #14  
Old July 11th 03, 04:26 PM
Stephen Tonkin
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Chris.B wrote:
You got the right bloke Stephen?


Yes.

There's been some discussion on Yahoo uk.telescopes. He's not selling
anything. AFAIKT.


Irrelevant. On UKAA some of us "mung" our addresses so that they *don't*
attract anything other than sincere replies to our ads. IMNSVHO (but it
is only MO!) it is a tad crass to deliberately un-mung the address
merely so you can solicit more hits to your web site. Why the hell does
he think we mung them in the first place?

And when I emailed him to tell him not to spam me again, what does he
do? Emails back with a whinge that it took him over an hour to un-mung
the addresses that he troffed from Astro-Ads!

[...]
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.


Except that it's unnecessary. We already have one very good one, a few
commercial operators offering the same (e.g. Hinds) and the other guy
who spammed people on Astro Ads (his, I am pleased to see, seems to be
dying a death; I have occasionally had a look out of curiosity, and the
volume of stuff now seems to be decreasing. I may be in a small
minority, but I am one of those who has had his fill of spam, and the
excuse "but I thought *my* spam was
different/relevant/something-you'd-like" just doesn't wash with me any
more. YMMV.


Best,
Stephen (aka The Unsympathetic Git)

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Old July 11th 03, 04:26 PM
Stephen Tonkin
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Chris.B wrote:
You got the right bloke Stephen?


Yes.

There's been some discussion on Yahoo uk.telescopes. He's not selling
anything. AFAIKT.


Irrelevant. On UKAA some of us "mung" our addresses so that they *don't*
attract anything other than sincere replies to our ads. IMNSVHO (but it
is only MO!) it is a tad crass to deliberately un-mung the address
merely so you can solicit more hits to your web site. Why the hell does
he think we mung them in the first place?

And when I emailed him to tell him not to spam me again, what does he
do? Emails back with a whinge that it took him over an hour to un-mung
the addresses that he troffed from Astro-Ads!

[...]
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.


Except that it's unnecessary. We already have one very good one, a few
commercial operators offering the same (e.g. Hinds) and the other guy
who spammed people on Astro Ads (his, I am pleased to see, seems to be
dying a death; I have occasionally had a look out of curiosity, and the
volume of stuff now seems to be decreasing. I may be in a small
minority, but I am one of those who has had his fill of spam, and the
excuse "but I thought *my* spam was
different/relevant/something-you'd-like" just doesn't wash with me any
more. YMMV.


Best,
Stephen (aka The Unsympathetic Git)

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+ Stephen Tonkin | ATM Resources; Astro-Tutorials; Astro Books +
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Old July 11th 03, 04:33 PM
A. Edwards
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Err - Robert Geake mumbled something like:
Sorry Chris but any thing i have not requested be sent
to me is spam and therefore unwanted. No mater what
the content.

The sender of said spam is asked to stop, if they dont
they will find thier inbox becomming very very busy.

Any way the site seems a bit geeky and complex for
any to get really interested.

R


It's the same site generator that Astrofieds use...

Arthur


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Old July 11th 03, 04:33 PM
A. Edwards
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Err - Robert Geake mumbled something like:
Sorry Chris but any thing i have not requested be sent
to me is spam and therefore unwanted. No mater what
the content.

The sender of said spam is asked to stop, if they dont
they will find thier inbox becomming very very busy.

Any way the site seems a bit geeky and complex for
any to get really interested.

R


It's the same site generator that Astrofieds use...

Arthur


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  #18  
Old July 11th 03, 05:52 PM
Paul Kelly
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And when I emailed him to tell him not to spam me again, what does he
do? Emails back with a whinge that it took him over an hour to un-mung
the addresses that he troffed from Astro-Ads!


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 :-)


  #19  
Old July 11th 03, 05:52 PM
Paul Kelly
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And when I emailed him to tell him not to spam me again, what does he
do? Emails back with a whinge that it took him over an hour to un-mung
the addresses that he troffed from Astro-Ads!


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 :-)


  #20  
Old July 11th 03, 05:55 PM
Boxington Headmaker
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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

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