From: rphenry@home.com 
  
 "Kathy Morgan"  wrote in message 
 news:1gjy0tr.n6idc21v0syl5N%kmorgan@spamcop.net... 
 > Richard Henry  wrote: 
 > 
 > [It's sometimes okay to post the same thing repeatedly, many times in a 
 > short period] 
 > > Just because someone has developed an automatic spam-detector or index 
 that 
 > > identifies a posting or series of postings as spam does not necessarily 
 make 
 > > it so. 
 > 
 > You are wrong.  Newsgroup spam is defined as essentially the same thing 
 > posted repeatedly.  As others have said, it contributes nothing to the 
 > conversation but instead interferes with discussion.  The same thing 
 > posted multiple times in a short time is spam, whether or not it has 
 > reached the threshold to be cancellable spam.  Keep it up and you're 
 > likely to go back into a lot of killfiles. 
  
 Consider the following hypothetical thread: 
  
 P1)  Kathy's an asshole. 
  
 P2)  No, she's not. 
  
 P1)  I meant that Kathy Morgan is an asshole. 
  
 P2)  No, she's not. 
  
 P1)  The Kathy Morgan I am talking about is the one who posts on 
 news.groups.  She is an asshole. 
  
 P2)  No, she's not. 
  
 P1)  Then what about Ed O'Hare.  Surely you must think he is an asshole. 
  
 P2)  No, she's not. 
  
 Is P2 spamming? 
  
  
 in re killfiles:  when and where was I in, and how did I get out? 
  
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