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If you have to print all the s*it you've just posted, you must be a bit short of a byte.

Spammer

DON'T post the same cr@p on every forum going.

What's a 'forum'? This is Usenet...and newsgroups... :-)

pah...you know what I mean! ;o)

Totally ot and unasked for. OTOH it speaks to a topic much underlearnt today, and upon which a great deal of success in life depends. Or the lack of it.

why??

not always the thing to do, it depends. Can be time wasted and/or opportunity missed.

generally advised against

no, compare each option.

If people followed that, most of us would be out of work.

depends on circumstances, if your ass is on fire it may be the best option.

of course there is

why should someone that can jump 4' go for the 2' hurdle?

There are some that succeed, by producing goods at lower cost than ever before.

If this is your list of points to 'print out', you may want to avoid self employment. One of the key questions is whether self employment is really a good idea at all. The very high business failure rate shows that for most it isnt.

NT

Surely 'forum' is a generic term that is a reasonable description of a newsgroup?

No, forums are generally web based and we have had enough trouble with those in here over the years.

Dave

That site is obviously a plant to gain the owners Google income from the AdSense advertising. The text has been stolen from and the whole deceit is against the following google AdSense program policy.

# No Google ad may be placed on pages published specifically for the purpose of showing ads, whether or not the page content is relevant.

If you click the 'Ads by Goooooogle' link just below the advertising, and enter a complaint (no email address necessary to do so), hopefully the spammer will lose their collected google revenue!

Do it today, I have ... ;-)

Technically, it might be. But it generally tends to indicate a lack of understanding by the poster, concerning the nature of the audience to which they are posting.

I'm afraid your education has let you down. Forum *is* a generic term of long standing - 2,500 years? - and you have to accept its general use alongside its more specific version, else display your ignorance.

Except that it didn't in this case. ;-)

|In article |Bob Eager wrote: |> On Wed, 10 May 2006 06:55:16 UTC, "Russ" |> wrote: |> |> > DON'T post the same cr@p on every forum going. |> |> What's a 'forum'? This is Usenet...and newsgroups... :-) |> |> |Surely 'forum' is a generic term that is a reasonable description of a |newsgroup?

On the WWW a "forum" is a web based system where you can read discussions on a specific web page(s) system. Usenet is completely different, the discussion is distributed by newservers directly to your own machine.

Groups.google is trying to pretend that it *is* usenet by offering a web based interface to usenet. Read

Uh, maybe I was being a bit slow! Hadnt even noticed the spam links.

NT

That's why I was careful to include the word 'generally'....!

I know that. This isn't the web.

Well done Sherlock.

Don't you come around here trying to be reasonable.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com saying something like:

Assume that something you've picked up from the internet is bollocks.