Don W wrote:

Actually, your message was a commercial posting to a non-commercial newsgroup.
As such it is not really welcomed here by a lot of folks. A more appropriate
newsgroup is rec.boats.marketplace which is for commercial postings such as yours.

See my reply to your original post for suggestions on how to participate and
pump your business at the same time.

Also, by the replies you can see that some people do not mind you
violating the charter--but some people do.

I'm one that does mind

BTW - Been on newsgroups since around 1988 or so. Back then people didn't send
unsolicited commercials to your email either. Now see where we are, and ask
yourself if you want the newsgroups to become that way.

Don W.

linuxsalute wrote:

Some meatball decided that sending 1 message to a newsgroup announcing
our website is spam. This group IS dedicated to boats correct? And
cruising correct?

One message to 3 relevant newsgroups posted manually one time does NOT
constitute spam. I have a right to responsible and rationally use this
newsgroup just as well as everyone else. I do NOT rapid fire ads to a
bunch of groups ever. I do NOT cross post. I do not send ads out on a
regular basis. I thought the groups were to announce relevant
information and links to the subscribers. I could understand if I sent
multiple postings with massive advertisment. This thing with people

I saw two posts about the same thing with different headers and on
that basis decided it was spam, and blocked the address.

witchhunting people as spammers when they are NOT has to stop. I
followed the CORRECT procedure posting relevant information to a proper
group. If he cannot prove his allegations of spam maybe he should
contain his libelous statements before someone in a legal department
somewhere gets angry and takes action. Guys I meant NO offense I only
wanted to get a LITTLE word out to people who love boats as much as we
do. Thank you.

I do not find your allegation that your posts were not spam convincing
and the threat to bring in the legal department does nothing to create
warm and fuzzy feelings toward you.

grandma Rosalie