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Article #104869Re: Has the sci-fi genre completely died?
From: Gerry Quinn
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:27
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:27
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In article <6sjj22944p8gqpl74jk58ddcq6re20mnu3@4ax.com>, thiswillbounce@bumblbee.demon.co.uk says... > On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:17:54 -0000, Gerry Quinn > <gerryq@DELETETHISindigo.ie> wrote: > >If they posted an announcement of their game, that's not spamming. > > Cool. So does that mean I can post announcements of all my > businesses, and it's not spamming? How about if I ignore any and all > replies? I was writing for intelligent readers, so I left out the phrase "once, on a relevant newsgroup". > Come on boys and girls - if a company posts an ad for their product > (be it a game or otherwise) and then don't respond to followup posts, > *surely* that's spamming? I don't see that spamming is anything much to do with whether you respond to follow-up posts. That can be a symptom of off-topic posts, but not a determining factor. > Or did usenet IQs drop suddenly while I was away? The total did, but the average didn't. - Gerry Quinn
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!news2.euro.net!62.58.50.20.MISMATCH!nntpfeed.zonnet.nl!newsfeed.esat.net!feeder.news.heanet.ie!news.indigo.ie!not-for-mail From: Gerry Quinn <gerryq@DELETETHISindigo.ie> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.space-sim Subject: Re: Has the sci-fi genre completely died? Message-ID: <MPG.1e947ec084ce4e0098aca3@news1.eircom.net> References: <1141836752.610916.131980@j52g2000cwj.googlegroups.com> <1141924581.338928.257810@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com> <man6121t5rbn6lr7tiasfnqt1oto39f0qf@4ax.com> <441589ad$0$24373$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <MPG.1e80fd0e445bbaed98ac40@news1.eircom.net> <6sjj22944p8gqpl74jk58ddcq6re20mnu3@4ax.com> Organization: Bindweed Entertainment Software MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.60.2060 Lines: 27 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:27:21 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.42.2.44 X-Complaints-To: abuse@eircom.net X-Trace: news.indigo.ie 1143649642 86.42.2.44 (Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:27:22 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:27:22 BST Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit