The Minneapolis craigslist tools section had an interesting flame war
yesterday. No pieces left to view though
http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/tls/

Seems one fellow has been posting a mismatched 'set' of 3 crows foot
wrenches for $68 every few days for months. A second fellow took
exception to the high price, started posting a 'please flag the crows
foot guy' ad. That led to the crows foot guy getting flagged off every
now and then. Of course he started putting more ads in to compensate,
which got flagged more often.

About 9:00 AM on Friday, the crows foot poster got mad, posted abusive
ads for the wrenches, which got flagged. At 10 AM he started posting
bogus ads, worked his way up to perhaps 20 ads with good titles, all
with abusive content as the text inside. And he also promised to keep it
up for as long as anyone flagged him.

Someone must have sent the whole thing to the craigslist net nanny. At
noon, everything on both sides of the flame were GONE. And no more crows
foot ads. Well, maybe one, someone else had a legitimate set for a
reasonable price, had to say "It wasn't me, don't flag me".

On Dec 29, 1:10*pm, RoyJ wrote:
The Minneapolis craigslist tools section had an interesting flame war
yesterday. No pieces left to view thoughhttp://minneapolis.craigslist.org/tls/

Seems one fellow has been posting a mismatched 'set' of 3 crows foot
wrenches for $68 every few days for months. A second fellow took
exception to the high price, started posting a 'please flag the crows
foot guy' ad. That led to the crows foot guy getting flagged off every
now and then. Of course he started putting more ads in to compensate,
which got flagged more often.

About 9:00 AM on Friday, the crows foot poster got mad, posted abusive
ads for the wrenches, which got flagged. At 10 AM he started posting
bogus ads, worked his way up to perhaps 20 ads with good titles, all
with abusive content as the text inside. And he also promised to keep it
up for as long as anyone flagged him.

Someone must have sent the whole thing to the craigslist net nanny. At
noon, everything on both sides of the flame were GONE. And no more crows
foot ads. Well, maybe one, someone else had a legitimate set for a
reasonable price, had to say "It wasn't me, don't flag me".

Interesting.

The commercial spamming gets old fast and the boys and girls at
Craigslist do a rather good job keeping it at bay if you let them know
about it.

TMT

Too_Many_Tools wrote:

The commercial spamming gets old fast and the boys and girls at
Craigslist do a rather good job keeping it at bay if you let them know
about it.

I'm starting to think spamming should be a capital offense in Texas.

Wes

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:10:59 -0500, Wes wrote:
Too_Many_Tools wrote:

The commercial spamming gets old fast and the boys and girls at
Craigslist do a rather good job keeping it at bay if you let them know
about it.

I'm starting to think spamming should be a capital offense in Texas.

With all due respect, Wes, I think you have it wrong. Specifically,
your sentence is too long by exactly two words.

In article , Dave Hinz wrote:
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:10:59 -0500, Wes wrote:
Too_Many_Tools wrote:

The commercial spamming gets old fast and the boys and girls at
Craigslist do a rather good job keeping it at bay if you let them know
about it.

I'm starting to think spamming should be a capital offense in Texas.

With all due respect, Wes, I think you have it wrong. Specifically,
your sentence is too long by exactly two words.

two words and a smiley.

Dave Hinz wrote:

I'm starting to think spamming should be a capital offense in Texas.

With all due respect, Wes, I think you have it wrong. Specifically,
your sentence is too long by exactly two words.

I figured we needed to start in one state and let the laboratory of
democracy model of government do it's work.

Wes

On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:06:50 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, Wes
quickly quoth:

Dave Hinz wrote:

I'm starting to think spamming should be a capital offense in Texas.

With all due respect, Wes, I think you have it wrong. Specifically,
your sentence is too long by exactly two words.

I figured we needed to start in one state and let the laboratory of
democracy model of government do it's work.

Would't that give the speaking weasels too much time to do their work
of the Devil?

--
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous
delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
--e e cummings

I'm starting to think spamming should be a capital offense in Texas.

With all due respect, Wes, I think you have it wrong. Specifically,
your sentence is too long by exactly two words.

I figured we needed to start in one state and let the laboratory of
democracy model of government do it's work.

Wes

Perhaps in parallel we should try a different approach here on the left
coast - spammers will be required to spend one hour for each spam message
sent with a current celebrity or politician teaching them to say meaningful
things......



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"William Noble" wrote:


Perhaps in parallel we should try a different approach here on the left
coast - spammers will be required to spend one hour for each spam message
sent with a current celebrity or politician teaching them to say meaningful
things......

Yeah, like a spammer has ANY concept of the meaning of "Meaningful"

[But I can imagine a sweat shop with Paris, Jessica and Brittany
spamming the universe, typing out each message one at a time.]
jk

William Noble wrote:

I'm starting to think spamming should be a capital offense in Texas.

With all due respect, Wes, I think you have it wrong. Specifically,
your sentence is too long by exactly two words.

I figured we needed to start in one state and let the laboratory of
democracy model of government do it's work.

Wes

Perhaps in parallel we should try a different approach here on the left
coast - spammers will be required to spend one hour for each spam message
sent with a current celebrity or politician teaching them to say meaningful
things......


To hell with that! Give them a sharp stick, and a one way plane
ticket to Iraq to atart their new jobs as "Landmine Locators'.


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Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida