RE: Great Free Software!

[Martin Rowe <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 09:01, David.X.Kahn@gsk.com wrote:
> Martin wrote:
>
> > It's a bit of a long link (might get wrapped) but this
> > is the Usenet thread on the subject. From my reading
> > there are three of 'them' with some genuine replies
> > from others.
>
> Amazingly the genuine posters in the Usenet thread don't seem to have
> realised that they're talking to marketing 'droids. I suppose the people on
> the news group are more used to seeing postings from free mail accounts and
> from people with no track record than we are. But still there is the
> evangelical tone and the determination to mention the product name, the
> link and the marketing bullet points in every message.
>
> I like the observation from one of the genuine posters that he wasn't happy
> with the ad banner appearing on every pdf page. So much for great free
> software. It's just a come on for their $$$ versions.
>
> Dave...

Dave

Well I obviously fell for it last year, and so did a number of others
:(. The same crowd pulled this scam back in May[1] - I wondered why some
of the names seemed familiar.

Regards, Martin
[1]
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=70270933.0105311055.4c977ac9%40posting.google.com&rnum=5&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dlauren%2Bbigelow%26hl%3Den%26selm%3D70270933.0105311055.4c977ac9%2540posting.google.com%26rnum%3D5
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