Flat Roof

What a remarkable coincidence it is that flatroof-advice.co.uk is registered to Alexander Frederick Hodson, while hodson.co.uk is registered to Steven Hodson!! Distant relative maybe?

Pathetic!

I've paid my =A32 through Paypal. How do I get the book?

On 8 Jan 2005 17:14:19 -0800, snipped-for-privacy@btopenworld.com strung together this:

Oh dear. Could you stick something in my PayPal account too please. I'll send you a book on how to become as millionaire in a week.

Can you people stop being sarcastic and let me know what is going on here. Thanks.

On 9 Jan 2005 06:16:18 -0800, snipped-for-privacy@btopenworld.com strung together this:

Sorry, didn't realise you were being serious. I thought most people knew a con when they saw it. As the OP is a spamming f****it they won't be reading this group so you need to contact them through the site.

What are the tell-tale signs of this con? The website looks quite genuine.

On 9 Jan 2005 13:14:50 -0800, snipped-for-privacy@btopenworld.com strung together this:

The fact that someone spammed a newsgroup from Google Groups never to be seen again and replied to five posts from ages ago with the same answer offering no advice other than to buy his ebook.

You've been done, and if you haven't you will be one day.

Either you're extremely stupid, or you're having us on. Go back and read my initial reply to the spamming f****it.

Are you always this rude? I occasionally visit the uk diy site, saw the posting on Flat Roof and thought it looked interesting and useful. Does that make me stupid?

On 9 Jan 2005 14:38:30 -0800, snipped-for-privacy@btopenworld.com strung together this:

Who? I usually am, yes.

Yes. But it's not your fault you didn't know any better. I suppose you buy stuff over the phone when the double glazing man calls do you?

Not always, I save it for the terminally stupid.

Actually, yes, it does.

On 9 Jan 2005 14:38:30 -0800, snipped-for-privacy@btopenworld.com strung together this:

While we're at it, if you're going to respond to posts, leave them at the top of the message and reply below as no-one has any idea what you're replying to.

I've now received access to a 94 page pdf file containing flat roof advice for my =A32.

I still don't know how I was supposed to know this was a spammer. I just clicked on the link in the first message before you and others warned against it.

The OP was snipped-for-privacy@hodson.co.uk He's never posted to this group before, but suddenly appeared with replies to three ancient threads and one new one, all recommending a visit to

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:34:07 -0000, Rob Morley strung together this:

And I'll bet that the info you get in the ebook is just what you can get on here, only a bit more general. uk.d-i-y is free though.

Although I haven't studied it in detail, you might well be right. This is certainly a great site for people like me with limited DIY experience.

A final (?) point on all this. If this thread is inappropriate and is being used by spammers, why hasn't the thread been deleted?

This is an unmoderated Usenet group, not a web bulletin board - there's nobody in charge and no central place to delete stuff from anyway.

Which is exactly why it pays to stick around, read what people have to say, ask questions, and figure out for yourself who you want to listen to and who you want to ignore.

It's not a great 'site' at all. It's a site someone has set up to grab all of the discussion on a public newsgroup, repackage it and republish it as if it were theirs. It's not.

The public newsgroup is just that; public. So it can't be done. The people who run the web site you're using can't be bothered, as it involves actual work.

Why not set up a newsreader to read uk.d-i-y directly, and cut out the middleman?