From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
To: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-08-23 02:15:33 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 10:15:33 +0800
From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 10:15:33 +0800
To: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Subject: Re: [rant] Re: Spamming (Good or Bad?)
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On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Alan Olsen wrote:
> At 05:49 PM 8/20/96 +0000, Ross Wright wrote:
> >On Or About 20 Aug 96, 16:23, Jim Gillogly wrote:
> >> Vipul Ved Prakash <vipul@pobox.com> writes:
> >> >I don't know if there has been much discussion on the ethics of
> >> >spamming here? Is spamming free speech?
> >> I oppose spamming because it's rude and inefficient, lowering the
> >> S/N everywhere it happens. Market droids
> >Market Droids???? As a salesman I take offence at this slur.
> It is a mild term compared to some of the things that could be said about sales.
> I have dealt with far too many sales people. Few of them knew anything
> about the products that they were selling. (This is especially true of the
> computer field. "Do you know the difference between a computer salesman and
> a car salesman? The car salesman knows how to drive.")
The way I heard it was that the Car Salesman knew he was lying.
> But then, rarely does truth enter into the matter of sales...
> Sales people have a bad reputation for a very good reason. If they actually
> had a basic understanding of what they were selling, and were not so
> untrustworthy as to not commit to things that are not deliverable, they
> would have that reputation.
Then they would not be sales people. Good salesmen are like good
governments. Very Very Rare.
o.b. Crypto: Uh...Uh...Uh... Testing one way hashes on SalesDroids.
Petro, Christopher C.
petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow@smoke.suba.com
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