Re: Notice: My 2nd crypto book finished :-)

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Lighten up, mm. When you've contributed as much to this
community as Tom has, I'll be happy to read your book
announcements here, too.
SO you support spamming by people you think have contributed enough?

Yes. Tom has the right to make an announcement among a group of people that
he knows, in a group where he has an established reputation.

If we were mass posting to 30000 groups and never saw follow ups then it
would be spam.

This is more like an announcement.

People of sufficient notoriety are afforded a certain amount of free
publicity. Somehow I doubt that you disagree in entirety - the dispute is
more likely to lie in where the threshold of abuse lies. Apparently you
think a post dedicated specifically to an announcement of a commercial
venture is past that threshold. I have never formalized my distinction
between spam and announcing - but if Tom were posting a weekly update about
his book - I would eventually concede it to be inappropriate. That has not
happened.

I have seen announcements in every group, from alt.music.* to alt.games.* to
groups such as this one of a scientific/mathematical nature.

Honestly, I believe this is being used as a way to bitch - in what amounts
to little more than a popularity contest.

Nobody likes a netKKKop.

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LTP

:)


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