"Larry" wrote
No, I was merely pointing out to a spammer that
this is NOT the place to advertise his product....

One man's spam is another's paté. The "Ad:" preface in the subject line
pretty clearly identifies the post for what it is, the poster makes no
attempt to obfuscate his identity, and the announcement involves a boating
related product in a boating newsgroup. Personally I'm not totally jiggy
about it, but it's not like SEI is flooding the group with such posts, so
I'm not so quick to put them in the same class as people peddling warez or
hawking cut-rate viagra. At any rate, what mostly struck me as odd was the
vitriol of your reply. Was it prompted by personal experience with SEI?