Ivor Jones wrote:[color=blue]
> "Desk Rabbit" <nospam@example.com> wrote in message
> news:G8ednU3RDuo27cDbRVnytgA@pipex.net
>[color=green]
>>Ivor Jones wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>>"Desk Rabbit" <nospam@example.com> wrote in message
>>>news:voadnVJ6BMvumcHbnZ2dneKdnZzinZ2d@pipex.net
>>>
>>>>Ivor Jones wrote:
>>>
>>>[snip]
>>>
>>>
>>>>>Right. The part of your sentence above "whoever they
>>>>>are" says it all to me. If they were a reputable
>>>>>organisation they wouldn't hide.
>>>>
>>>>I'm a reputable organisation but I don't display my
>>>>company information on every post I make. Neither do I
>>>>display a valid email address. Therefore by your
>>>>definition Ivor, every message I post is spam.
>>>
>>>Not at all. However if you were to try and advertise
>>>your business here, that would be spam.[/color]
>>
>>
>>So just where exactly did the OP advertise their
>>business? By your own admission they did not give a web
>>site nor an email address.
>>An advert without any means of contacting the business
>>does not seem very worthwhile.[/color]
>
>
> I assume they are asking people to respond here, eventually a business
> contact will come along. It's happened before that way.[/color]
Assumpton - the mother of all **** ups.
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>>You seem to be painting yourself into a corner.[/color]
>
>
> Not at all. Spam is still spam.[/color]

So the Ivor definition of newsgroup spam based on what you have said in
this thread, is that it is spam provided it advertises something (or
not), has a valid email address (or not), has a web site (or not) and
may at some point in the distant future lead to some possibility that
there might just be the faint hint of a posting with some sort of
commercial bias related to the original posting.

Brilliant Ivor, just plain brilliant.