"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
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On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 07:26:01 GMT, "John Smith"
wrote:

Is there a fine line that is acceptable?

Yes, if the poster is involved, in any way, with making money from his
posts, it's SPAM. That line is very broad and easily seen from miles
away.

No! That is not the criterion, that's your opinion. As another poster
already pointed out: the charter of this group specifically allows product
announcements. It didn't say anything about who this announcement is allowed
to make, but it should be on-topic.

According to the Net Abuse FAQ,
http://www.cybernothing.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq.html#2.1, spam is defined
below:
"The term "spam," as used on this newsgroup, means "the same article (or
essentially the same article) posted an unacceptably high number of times to
one or more newsgroups." CONTENT IS IRRELEVANT. 'Spam' doesn't mean "ads."
It doesn't mean "abuse." It doesn't mean "posts whose content I object to."
Spam is a funky name for a phenomenon that can be measured pretty
objectively: did that post appear X times? (See 3.1, "Yeah, but how many is
X?')"

Meindert