From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,DRUGS_ERECTILE, SERGIO_SUBJECT_VIAGRA01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,dfb82fe481afbf08 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!news1.optus.net.au!optus!newsfeeder.syd.optusnet.com.au!news.optusnet.com.au!not-for-mail Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 16:51:11 +1000 From: Ross Higson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Your Via&gra Refill is Ready References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4164e818$0$20126$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 211.30.68.34 X-Trace: 1097132056 20126 211.30.68.34 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4854 Date: 2004-10-07T16:51:11+10:00 List-Id: Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 16:51:15 +0000, "Dixie Stewart" > 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? :)