Got a private email calling me to task.
Why, the writer wanted to know, did I call Max ikn Southbridge spam, and imply that Alice of the Torches was also a spammer. Meanwhile, the Pepperman is selling his griddle.
“Seems like a double standard,” she said.
I thought if one person took the trouble to write, others might be confused as well.
Pepperman joined the group and immediately joined in. He told us about himself on the Introductions forum. And he posted recipes. And he took part in ongoing threads. And started new ones. In short, all the things members do.
Alice and Max (and others, in the past), on the other hand, joined for only one reason: to tout their products. They do not take part in forum activities, and apparently have no intention of doing so. They just want to lure us over to their websites. On the face of it this is suspicious. But when the same message appears on three, or four, or a half dozen other sites as well, it just adds up to SPAM.
Pepperman is a member who just happens to have a commercial product. So what? He isn’t here with the sole purpose of selling it to us. And when he does post a sales message he doesn't try and masquarade it as something else.
And that’s what makes the whole difference.
Why, the writer wanted to know, did I call Max ikn Southbridge spam, and imply that Alice of the Torches was also a spammer. Meanwhile, the Pepperman is selling his griddle.
“Seems like a double standard,” she said.
I thought if one person took the trouble to write, others might be confused as well.
Pepperman joined the group and immediately joined in. He told us about himself on the Introductions forum. And he posted recipes. And he took part in ongoing threads. And started new ones. In short, all the things members do.
Alice and Max (and others, in the past), on the other hand, joined for only one reason: to tout their products. They do not take part in forum activities, and apparently have no intention of doing so. They just want to lure us over to their websites. On the face of it this is suspicious. But when the same message appears on three, or four, or a half dozen other sites as well, it just adds up to SPAM.
Pepperman is a member who just happens to have a commercial product. So what? He isn’t here with the sole purpose of selling it to us. And when he does post a sales message he doesn't try and masquarade it as something else.
And that’s what makes the whole difference.