"Peter Duniho" wrote in news:1279p8lkkv75tb8
@corp.supernews.com:

Snipola
The only thing Larry is wrong about here is his misguided attempt to try to
get people to stop responding to spam.

A reply isn't even what the advertisers are after. They are after
someone seeing the ad and then visiting the place advertised. I
don't think the advertisers could care less whether anyone replies
to the post or not. I doubt that but a handful of advertisement
spammers even follow up to see if their posts are replied to or
not. Those that do are probably the small timers who are targeting
a very specific audience and have only posted to "appropriate"
groups. Then, they're probabyl only interested in the fact that
there ARE replies and not what is actually being said. It tells
them that people have paid some attention to the ad, whether good
or bad.

Brian
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