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From: Ross Higson <rosshigson_REMOVE_ME_@optusnet.com.au>
Subject: Re: Your Via&gra Refill is Ready
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 16:51:11 +1000
Date: 2004-10-07T16:51:11+10:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4164e818$0$20126$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hdj9m053ou5f3en75idr1f0578nllu52rg@4ax.com>

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 16:51:15 +0000, "Dixie Stewart"
> <dstewart_pn@stackbin.com> declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada:
> 
> 	Rhetorical question for the regulars...
> 
> 	For some reason C.L.Ada seems more heavily spammed than other
> c.l.* groups.
> 
> 	Has anyone proposed that the problem (or lure) is the name Ada
> being confused with the ADA (and not the dental association)? Taking the
> route that the "disabled" need viagra and other such help?
> 

Or perhaps the suppliers consider the average Ada programmer to be much 
older than those using other languages?

If so, will we soon start seeing spam for hearing aids, walking frames 
and retirement homes? :)



       reply	other threads:[~2004-10-07  6:51 UTC|newest]

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     [not found] ` <hdj9m053ou5f3en75idr1f0578nllu52rg@4ax.com>
2004-10-07  6:51   ` Ross Higson [this message]
2004-10-07  9:00     ` Your Via&gra Refill is Ready CBFalconer
     [not found]       ` <m2oam0tco0lun3s3q7r79ob04hf47f8tl3@4ax.com>
2004-10-07 19:15         ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-10-08  1:23           ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-09 22:41   ` Keith Thompson
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