In a message dated 7/26/2004 8:09:30 AM Pacific Standard Time,
billvelek@alltel.net writes:
I assume that Wayne Brady is appearing in a casino somewhere, or at
least in a gambling town, and that misscraps is not posting similar
notices in every newsgroup she can find, like the idiots who think I
want to see Homer Simpson have sex with Lisa. Since anything pertaining
to gambling trips, including eating, car rental, recommended show, etc.,
are all considered on-topic on vpFree, I believe the vast majority of
members of vpFree would _NOT_ consider misscraps post as spam, nor does
it meet the conventional definition of spam. I don't have a problem
with it, and on this group I don't think we're going to see a whole lot
of members trying to sell something; but should that happen, normal
netiquette is to start the subject line with "FS:" -- indicating 'For
Sale' -- so that folks can set their filters to eliminate all such ads
if that's what they want to do.
As for gift versus sale, misscraps is offering them at about half their
value, as it is; why should she give them away? It's nice when folks do
such things, but if the two tickets are really worth close to $150.00, I
can't blame her for trying to sell them.
Absolutely - I couldn't agree more. Well said.
Bill in Henderson
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