What's so bad about spamming software that work?

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Tim Murray

What triggered this post was Bill Dilworth's response to the person who posts
links to that video converter software for converting PPT to a number of
different formats.

I absolutely despise spam for, say Viagra, in any newsgroup that's not about
erectile dysfunction. But if a particular solution does indeed work, then ...
well, why not?

That said, I don't know if the person touting this particular software has a
history of linking to it for posts that have no relevance, as in telling a
user who says his Symbol font looks funny that solution is video converter.

But if the posts are indeed relevant, then what's the problem?
 
Your logics is : " Ends justify the means ".
Firstly, this particular person, and most likely all spammers, advertises
the software all over the place, regardless of it's relevancy.
Secondly, and most important of all, his INTENTION is not to help. Just
pushing his software.
To associate him as one of us is criminal.
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Your logics is : " Ends justify the means ".
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Far from it. That argument is usually served for assassinations, war, and
animal testing, where something or someone suffers for a greater good (and I
do NOT want to explore that line further).
Firstly, this particular person, and most likely all spammers, advertises
the software all over the place, regardless of it's relevancy.
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If that is what this person is doing, then that sucks.
Secondly, and most important of all, his INTENTION is not to help. Just
pushing his software.
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If it turned out that the spam were always relevant, then would you conclude
the same about his intent?
 
No. " Ends justify Means " is a philosophical issue. A mentality of how one
approaches matters on hand. Your conception is narrow and flawed. A man
broke the car window, ripped the door apart to save an injured person
inside. What's wrong with that ? Nothing.

Show me one spam that actually helps, and I can show you 10 that do not and
irrelevant.
If one of them actually helps, it is coincidental. You drop hundreds of them
all over, the law of average says you might hit the jack-pot.

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That and posing as regular users who post questions that, mirabile!, they
just happen to have the answer for (and even more mirabile, it happens to
be their software, imagine that).
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That's pretty low-life. Thanks for the info.
 
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