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To: Vendit™ who wrote (604)	6/27/1999 1:16:00 AM
From: ISOMAN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4105

Look Ven, we all know you are Bill Gates so get off of your high horse.

To: Vendit™ who wrote (604)	6/27/1999 1:38:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4105

Just a question about how to define spamming. Mr. X (let him be nameless, for the nonce) has, in the course of a single day, posted his enthusiastic (Buy Now!) "analysis" of Company Y to a number of different, randomly selected threads where he has never posted before. (As a matter of fact, Mr. X is a new member, and up until today he had posted very little.) A look at Mr. X's profile reveals that he is an employee of Company Y. So there is no subterfuge involved here. What do the assembled experts say? Is Mr. X simply an enthusiastic employee, who wants to spread the good word, the inside poop, as it were? Or does he sound more like a spammer? In other words, do you take a different attitude to spam from an openly confessed employee of the company s/he promotes, than you do to spam from a source that seeks to conceal his/her connection? Thanks in advance for any reply. jbe