On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 18:53:44 -0500, Lance wrote:

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote:

Ed was bitching that Jay's points were SPAM.

Ed was right, it is spam. It is crossposted commercial spam guised as
update notices. One would have to be quite naive to think that Jay has
no commercial motive in his almost daily crossposted update notices.

Well... there is a slight difference, here. Jay isn't a commercial vendor
who suddenly appeared in the groups to shill his wares. He was
participating in these newsgroups for at least four years prior to his
purchasing the hotel. He's an aircraft owner, and has posted extensively
on his ownerships experiences and his opinions on a variety of topics.

He's doing us a favor by posting pictures of our airplanes on his web
space...not to mention collecting all the neat aviation videos all in one
spot.

True, it might be better if he made the "New Updates to the Rogues'
Gallery" postings on a biweekly or monthly basis, rather than every time a
plane is added. But I see his postings as enthusiasm, not commercialism.
He's having fun, and he wants to share it with the rest of us.

Over the years, we've had a number people who regularly posted fun stuff
here, but quit posting when the negativism became overwhelming. Let's not
add another to the list.

Ron Wanttaja