wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:39:35 -0700, Blinky the Shark >
> wrote:
>
>>The irony of a Google Groper complaining about spam that's mostly
>>provided by Google Gropers. Harf!
>>
> That's not nice, Blinky! Why punish legitimate posters? Guilt by
> association isn't a valid argument. Some day you may be in a situation

Sleep with dogs; wake up with fleas.

> where you'll need to use Google to post, so your words could come back to
> bite you on the tail-fin.

No, I won't.

> IMO: Google does a great job of blocking spam in gmail. I wish they would
> apply their spam blockers to Dejanews too. There are far more legitimate
> users of the Google Interface than spammers - I refuse to call it Google
> "Groups" because "google groups" encompasses more than public Usenet. It
> implies "private" to me.

There is no longer any deja news; there is Google Groups. As for
"private", yes, that's what most GGers think they're using -- a Google
service.


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