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To: nokomis who wrote (7257)	5/7/2002 8:53:38 PM
From: plugger301	Respond to of 8046

Can't help with the definition but...here are some good recipes.<g> Cheers. hormel.com

To: nokomis who wrote (7257)	5/7/2002 9:00:38 PM
From: X Y Zebra	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8046

being a sensitive soul, my feelings were truly hurt. Boo-hoo. Read some Mencken... For example... "The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression." it is the best antidote for the trolls that boot ya... After the reading you will simply laugh at the pettiness of their soul. lol _______________ __________ A Bum's Christmas By H.L. MENCKEN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Printed in The Wall Street Journal Editorial page - December 24, 1998 H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), the legendary Baltimore newspaperman, wrote the following story, originally entitled "Stare Decisis," for the New Yorker. It was published as a book in 1948. To mark the book's 50th anniversary, we present Journal readers with a slightly abbreviated version of Mencken's classic tale. © Copyright, Alfred A. Knopf Inc. <snip> But in the masterpiece of Fred Ammermeyer's benevolent career there was no such attempt at direct missionarying; indeed, his main idea when he conceived it was to hold up to scorn and contumely, by the force of mere contrast, the crude missionarying of his theological opponents. This idea seized him one evening when he dropped into the Central Police Station to pass the time of day with an old friend, a police lieutenant who was then the only known freethinker on the Baltimore force. Christmas was approaching and the lieutenant was in an unhappy and rebellious frame of mind--not because he objected to its orgies as such, or because he sought to deny Christians its beautiful consolations, but simply and solely because he always had the job of keeping order at the annual free dinner by the massed missions of the town to the derelicts of the waterfront, and that duty compelled him to listen politely to a long string of pious exhortations, many of them from persons he knew to be whited sepulchres. "Why in hell," he observed impatiently, "do all them goddam hypocrites keep the poor bums waiting for two, three hours while they get off their goddam whimwham? Here is a hall full of men who ain't had nothing to speak of to eat for maybe three, four days, and yet they have to set there smelling the turkey and the coffee while ten, fifteen Sunday-school superintendents and W.C.T.U. [Women's Christian Temperance Union] sisters sing hymns to them and holler against booze. I tell you, Mr. Ammermeyer, it ain't human. More than once I have saw a whole row of them poor bums pass out in faints, and had to send them away in the wagon. And then, when the chow is circulated at last, and they begin fighting for the turkey bones, they ain't hardly got the stuff down before the superintendents and the sisters begin calling on them to stand up and confess whatever skullduggery they have done in the past, whether they really done it or not, with us cops standing all around. And every man Jack of them knows that if they don't lay it on plenty thick there won't be no encore of the giblets and stuffing, and two times out of three there ain't no encore anyhow, for them psalm singers are the stingiest outfit outside hell and never give a starving bum enough solid feed to last him until Christmas Monday. And not a damned drop to drink! Nothing but coffee--and without no milk! I tell you, Mr. Ammermeyer, it makes a man's blood boil." more.... io.com ____________________

To: nokomis who wrote (7257)	5/7/2002 10:17:58 PM
From: X Y Zebra	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 8046

sure wish someone would tell me the definition of Spam.. Well.... I decided to look into it This is what I found: cybernothing.org cybernothing.org From the above: 3.1) Yeah, but how many times is 'X'? How many posts does it take to push the spam envelope? To use up all your spam charity points? For a bare-bones spam? To trigger the raging-spam-cancellers-from-Hell? Among those who agree that spam should be defined solely by quantity, -----------------> 20 <-------------------- appears to be the magic number, or at least a number so middle-of-the-road that it provokes very little passionate dissent in either direction. Notably, Cancelmoose[tm] refused to set a firm number, in the belief that people would simply post [X-1] messages. It's safe to say that a couple incidents of 19-post spams would cause the magic number to plummet. Thus, 20 should be considered a vague approximation only. Passionately dissenting note: Rahul Dhesi [dhesi@rahul.net], one of the fathers of the cancel-bot movement, sticks by the following definition: More than five physically distinct postings with substantially identical content posted within a period of ten days. The most reliable document describing current spam thresholds and guidelines is a draft FAQ posted weekly to news.admin.net-abuse.misc by Chris Lewis. It also describes the Breidbart Index (see below) in greater detail. That FAQ is not now available on the web at: spam.abuse.net It is important to note that some ISP's set different limits on what their users may or may not do, so if you try to push the envelope with the Briedbart Index it's still quite possible that you'll lose your account. mail-abuse.org 100mile.com ______________________ So after reading the above, my opinion is that the answer given to you by the person who allegedly reported you is BS. ... and as I suspected in the first instance... Message 17424435 and as usual, Mencken always proves to be right... since you said you were happy to announce the re-birth of your thread... well you must have "touch" someone's string... -g •Puritanism - The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy. ______________ Of course... let's not forget the contribution by the Fascists who control the "banned" button who certainly had to activate it, upon the request of one of their dupes. I hope that the above helps you mitigate the pain of your already sore soul, remembering that you can always take the lighter side of things and just tell'em to stuff it. For example.... Take the REAL creators of SPAM (notice the UPPER CASE).... here is their "position statement on "spamming" spam.com and the reference where I got it.... tuxedo.org So there, in my eyes, you were NEVER the creator of a spamming action, rather you were the victim of the combination of an extremist blinded by his own zeal and the actions of fascist who were/are trigger happy on the execution button. (feeling they had to oblige their "famous" contributor.) [No doubt, this is a case where the inmates are running the asylum] lol