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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1063ad,b0d0683b87c9137a X-Google-Attributes: gid1063ad,public X-Google-Thread: 1077b1,b9a0a16409418612 X-Google-Attributes: gid1077b1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b0d0683b87c9137a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 108717,b0d0683b87c9137a X-Google-Attributes: gid108717,public X-Google-Thread: 101ee6,b0d0683b87c9137a X-Google-Attributes: gid101ee6,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-03-10 10:12:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!newsfeed3.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!border1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:12:27 -0600 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:12:26 -0500 From: "Robert I. Eachus" Reply-To: rieachus@comcast.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.object,comp.lang.ada,fm.announce.development,comp.programming,microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.component_services Followup-To: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: design pattern References: <11c08e94.0403081459.2f4d6dd@posting.google.com> <8670dada.0403100023.2546616e@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <5KidnfYHfZYWx9LdRVn-sw@comcast.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.77.160 X-Trace: sv3-zkZE5owveh3avw61q4mCPPzKwGg3GtKK425CSx28AiEXukpnqpeaUmJJ8q8IsbcuVazuWilKtydUYjX!zOgYwXSL8Hm2pFgdgu3D3ypkzuw8YhXI4uWkL4nFzT6AI+cH4F0qUYFPvdQszA== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.databases.object:615 comp.lang.ada:6216 fm.announce.development:839 comp.programming:13584 microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.component_services:3829 Date: 2004-03-10T13:12:26-05:00 List-Id: Noah Roberts wrote: > Have you guys even looked at the site in question? > > "Research Project AIT Sydney 2004 Student # 427" > > Not a single thing is being sold at that site. The only link to > something that could be construed as being sold is the "Get your own Web > Database - for FREE!" in small print at the bottom of the page. Like > the OP said, you are never asked for your email address. > > Knee-jerk reactions aside, this does not appear to qualify as spam. Spam does not need to be selling something to be spam. In fact, this message by me comes close to being spam, since it is crossposted to five Newsgroups. I did however reset follow-ups to comp.lang.ada only, and included my e-mail address as the reply to address. -- Robert I. Eachus "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." --Edmund Burke