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"me/2" <null@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
news:3rvip0574bdkk0jkj3hgp9l3356rlhh8u5@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:35:56 -0500, "John Poutré" <jfp14news@cox.net>
wrote:
>
> :>"me/2" <null@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
> :>news:5heip0p6ovciqsvijv3a8jmoqj9fnu2ec6@4ax.com...
> :>> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 07:28:57 -0500, "John Poutre" <jfp14news@cox.net>
> :>> wrote:
> :>>
> :>> :>Go away you moron.
> :>> :>
> :>> :>"Nico" <blabla@laptop.nl> wrote in message
> :>> :>news:41987727$0$60107$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
> :>> :>> I found a really cool new website today. If you go to the
following
> :>> link,
> :>> :>http

/www.xxxxxxxxxxxx.com/index.php?ref_id=xxxxx
>
> The above is not what you posted. See below.
>
> :>> :>> you can get a great free gift like mine, a new Sony mobile phone
for
> :>> just
> :>> :>$40! And guess what! I will get my gift sooner if you choose to
sign
> :>> up!
> :>> :>So be sure to check out this awesome new website today so that we
can
> :>> both
> :>> :>get our new free gift.
> :>> :>>
> :>> :>
> :>>
> :>> And what does it say about you when you quote his whole message
including
> :>> the URL with his reference number included? Are you the same person
using
> :>> a
> :>> different name to try and get more exposure for your scam?
> :>>
> :>> BTW, if you're just a newbie hopefully you'll learn something here.
If
> :>> you
> :>> feel you just have to reply to a spam/scam at least delete or modify
any
> :>> links in the quoted original message. Otherwise you're just giving
them
> :>> more exposure for their spam/scam.
> :>>
> :>> me/2
> :>
> :>Hey dopey, look at the text I quoted. And now look at the original.
> :>
> :>Newbie? LOL, you should learn to read.
> :>
>
> I don't want to start a flame war here so I'll try to be kind in my reply.
> Of course my quote of your message has a modified URL because I CHANGED IT
> WHEN I QUOTED IT so as to not compound your error. Go back and look at
your
> original reply to him. You quoted the whole correct URL out of his
message
> when you replied to him.
>
> Here is the message ID of your post.
>
> <2vrlnbF2o7s1lU1@uni-berlin.de>
>
> If you don't have your original post and if your newsreader supports it
you
> should be able to click on that and see your original "unmodified" post
> right off of your server.
>
> Not so dopey after all,
> me/2
I changed the reg # dope, so he would not get credit for it. So what it's
the same URL, would do him no good.