"Alan Adams" wrote in message
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Dave Mayall wrote:

On Tue, 18 May 2004 20:32:05 +0100, David Pearson
wrote:

There is a subtle difference between genuine spam, and a possibly naive
company advertising genuinely useful wares in a relevant place.

Not to the person suffering the junk there isn't.

On the other hand, if you'd simply ignored the mesage I would have had to
see it once.

Instead I've seen close to 10 messages, i.e. a 10-fold increase in junk.

Short term problem.

Tackling the issue leads to a few extra messages now. Ignoring it leads to
lots more in the long term.