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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 101076, member: 4381&quot;]<b>Q</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The sentence that you posted:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;I didn&#039;t ask for your opinion on who likes Mint wrapped nickels&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Is considered by most normal people as beligerent, in your face, confrontational.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Persoanlly, I didn&#039;t read your message as so benign.&nbsp; I read it as a hard sell, and it sounds like spam.&nbsp; Its full of hypeperbolia and unprovable claims, all laid out in rapid fashion.&nbsp; My stock broker also sounds like this sometimes.</p><p><br /></p><p>I sort of gave you a pass on that.&nbsp; I figured your probably some kid oversold on the hype and marketing clap trap.</p><p><br /></p><p>But now you&#039;ve become defensive and beligerent at being very mildly challenged.&nbsp; Thats almost always a bad sign of a more devious motivation.</p><p><br /></p><p>But, hey, I&#039;m not a moderator here.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have my own mailing lists which I moderate.&nbsp; But I&#039;ll just close on a couple of points.</p><p><br /></p><p>First:&nbsp; This is an open forum, not PR vehicle for any business interests.&nbsp; If someone disagrees with what you post, you can expect them to pipe up and say something.&nbsp; This is not your personal news letter to intereted investors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Secondly:&nbsp; If you didn&#039;t mean to sound as i described, you need to write in a more personal style and with less hype.&nbsp; People here are capable in reading and making judgements without a hard sell.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thirdly:&nbsp; When I cut and paste your first post and run it against my SpamAssasign mail filters, you tripped the spam filter.&nbsp; This says to me that my impression is correct.&nbsp; In a dispassionate test, your message had all the properties of spam.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is not beligerent?&nbsp; How do YOU describe telling someone to get off your thread and make your own thread?</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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