On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 21:13:35 -0500, "Charles Schuler"
wrote:

A note or two about promoting products here and the puppet shills that pile
on:

1/ Products are not to be promoted here.
2/ Shills morph faster than we can change our shorts.

Those of you who come here for information, beware of sales pitches. If
they pitch here, they are desperate because they are selling crap.

Those of you who come here to abuse this forum, a pox on you. As to your
shills, pox squared.

Jim Redelfs is a regular poster here, not a crackpot or a trouble
maker. I don't think people who meet that description can fairly be
called spammers or shills.

And even though there is a general Usenet rule about promoting
merchandise, I don't think that applies to regular posters who are
actually acquainted with something relevant to the group. Power tools
are definitely relevant, and I'm happy to hear about good ones. Every
rule has to be interpreted in context.

Did you hear the story about the two black-jack dealers in Las Vegas.
Tom gets tired of doing what he's doing and moves to Tuscon. Jake
comes to visit him the next year.

Tom owns a funeral home by this time, and Jake is impressed. But Tom
complaines he's doing badly, and not making any money.

What do you mean? Jake asks. You've got five corpses in your back
room.

Yeah, Tom replies, but 4 of them are shills.