Originally posted by aspviper666Rather than spamming, I was selective in chosing people who I thought would express concern about censorship of religious views.
i also got one
i think the key question here is who the hell didnt get a pm from STANG?
These included people who recently:
- posted on the Spirituality forum
- got listed on the Recommended page
- posted on the Site Ideas page
Anyone who claims that I was spamming is exagerating, possibly because they also wish to censor religous views (or my objections towards Bush and America's behaviour as a nation).
Bear in mind that my ban had been 'automatically' extended about 6 times and I had escalated this without a response before I sent personal messages.
As they say in America, "Have a nice day".
Originally posted by STANGspam: noun
Rather than spamming, I was selective in chosing people who I thought would express concern about censorship of religious views.
These included people who recently:
- posted on the Spirituality forum
- got listed on the Recommended page
- posted on the Site Ideas page
Anyone who claims that I was spamming is exagerating, possibly because they also wi ...[text shortened]... t a response before I sent personal messages.
As they say in America, "Have a nice day".
'Unsolicited information sent to a large number of people.'
SPAM
Electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings. Some people define spam even more generally as any unsolicited e-mail. However, if a long-lost brother finds your e-mail address and sends you a message, this could hardly be called spam, even though it's unsolicited. Real spam is generally e-mail advertising for some product sent to a mailing list or newsgroup.
In addition to wasting people's time with unwanted e-mail, spam also eats up a lot of network bandwidth. Consequently, there are many organizations, as well as individuals, who have taken it upon themselves to fight spam with a variety of techniques. But because the Internet is public, there is really little that can be done to prevent spam, just as it is impossible to prevent junk mail. However, some online services have instituted policies to prevent spammers from spamming their subscribers.
There is some debate about the source of the term, but the generally accepted version is that it comes from the Monty Python song, "Spam spam spam spam, spam spam spam spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam…" Like the song, spam is an endless repetition of worthless text. Another school of thought maintains that it comes from the computer group lab at the University of Southern California who gave it the name because it has many of the same characteristics as the lunchmeat Spam:
•Nobody wants it or ever asks for it.
•No one ever eats it; it is the first item to be pushed to the side when eating the entree.
Sometimes it is actually tasty, like 1% of junk mail that is really useful to some people.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/s/spam.html
Now I am hardly a prude, but could you people quit trying to redefine the word to fit your own definition please. What he did was not SPAM….so shuddup!
I for one was super glad to get the PM otherwise I would not have known about it.
RTh
Thank you. I'll repeat myself here for those people who overlooked it accidently or otherwise ...
Rather than spamming, I was selective in chosing people who I thought would express concern about censorship of religious views.
These included people who recently:
- posted on the Spirituality forum
- got listed on the Recommended page
- posted on the Site Ideas page
Anyone who claims that I was spamming is exagerating, possibly because they also wish to censor religous views (or my objections towards Bush and America's behaviour as a nation).
Bear in mind that my ban had been 'automatically' extended about 6 times and I had escalated this without a response before I sent personal messages.
As they say in America, "Have a nice day".
