Re: In re: Spam and Gate Crashing

From: Brian K. Yoder <byoder[_at_]netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 09:03:43 -0700 (PDT)

Christian Castle writes:
>
> Forgive my ignorance, but can someone distinguish "flaming" from
> "spamming" for me?
 

This is flaming:

You bloody idiot! How could you say something so utterly ridiculous? You ought to be dragged behind a car from Tulsa to Toledo for being such a complete moron!

This is spamming:

BUY BRAND X!
BUY BRAND X!
BUY BRAND X!
BUY BRAND X!
BUY BRAND X!
BUY BRAND X!

so is this:

This is a good luck letter! If you send it to 128 of your friends you will have great luck! Just remember to have each of them send out 128 exact copies of this letter to all their friends too...and their friends...and their friends...and so on...and so on...

This is both at once:

YOU ARE AN IDIOT!
YOU ARE AN IDIOT!
YOU ARE AN IDIOT!
YOU ARE AN IDIOT!
YOU ARE AN IDIOT!
YOU ARE AN IDIOT!

Get it?

> I'm your huckleberry...that's just my game...
 

....you're no daisy at all!

--Brian

Brian K. Yoder
<byoder[_at_]netcom.com> Received on Tue Oct 24 1995 - 16:06:18 GMT

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