John Corliss said:
To the best of my knowledge, I've only been wrong about two or three
times when I labeled somebody as a spammer
That may well be true - but given that your knowledge of what does, and
what does not, constitute spam, is so fundamentally useless, that's not
in any way a reliable guide.
You have been wrong about such matters many, many more times than that.
, and back in my spamcop days I used to file about 3-5 reports a day.
What a waste of electrons and bandwidth.
You were invited, more than once, to find out how to fight spam
effectively, You never did, did you?
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you'll have to forgive my overenthusiasm for dogma when it comes to the
definition of freeware. That came about because of all the selfishly
motivated, hidden-agenda carrying attempts by various idiots to modify
the definition of freeware in order to market various things/scams.
"Mummy"! The nasty bad men made me do it!"
Will you ever take responsibility for your own - piss poor - behaviour?
The main type of off-topic conversation I'm concerned with is when
somebody starts a thread or introduces discussion of:
You seem to have leapt from "spam" to "supposedly off topic". Do you
know the difference?
adware
cdware (when not openly available to everybody via a download link)
betaware (when bug reporting is mandatory)
commercial software
demoware
liteware (when it borders on being nagware)
the various shareware types (crippleware, nagware, time-limited)
spyware
trialware,
viruses and
warez.
None of these are freeware
In your personal view...
and it's an ongoing effort on the part of not just myself to prevent
this group from degenerating into inclusion of these types.
Film at eleven!
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And why on Earth have you decreed this sub- thread (in which you discuss
freeware) "off topic"?
