Rob
Jul 22, 2003, 04:03 AM
In the interests of wasting valuable bandwidth and hopefully slowing
the proliferation of "The Simpsons" fan sites, I submit the following
for your perusal:
(Crap - now what do I write?)
OK - boats. In specific, R/C boats. To be REALLY specific, R/C SAIL
boats...the thinking man's sport ;). (Let's see if I can attract some
flasmes with that one). I've 'talked' to Wayne in the past. Is it
exactly spam if you're selling something that's related to the group
you're posting to? I mean - where DO you post R/C sailcar ads? OK -
so this is a 'water' site. The nitro- and gas-powered guys aren't
even gonna look at a sail ad, probably, though maybe they should -
those things aren't slow! Not enough noise for 'em, maybe - or not
enough broken pieces when the thing crashes. (There isn't ANYTHING
like an R/C boat impacting a rock.... - well maybe an R/C plane
impacting a telephone pole, but that's for a different group).
Do I have a point? I'm not sure. If you wanna see a demon poster, go
check www.rcsailing.net and look up doug Lord's posts. He runs a
company called microSail and sells WAY high-tech sailboats. He's a
tireless promoter of his own products. Tireless enough to attract the
ire of others. Wayne does the same. Can't say as I blame him - how
do you sell a product that's really in a niche of its own?
Spam is when you're blowing stuff out to huge audiences without regard
to the recipient - at least Wayne is targetting somebody. (for what
it's worth, I'm not interested in increasing the size of anything - I
don't need to :) :) Not that we have to like it, eh? Just ignore the
posts that don't pertain to you and promote what we DO like - our own
niche of sailing.
For what it's worth, I've never run one of those sailcar thingies - I
almost ran an R/C iceboat, but standing on a cold, frozen windswept
lake while waiting for it to open up and swallow you didn't appeal to
the couch potato in me.
I like hobbies - all hobbies.
the proliferation of "The Simpsons" fan sites, I submit the following
for your perusal:
(Crap - now what do I write?)
OK - boats. In specific, R/C boats. To be REALLY specific, R/C SAIL
boats...the thinking man's sport ;). (Let's see if I can attract some
flasmes with that one). I've 'talked' to Wayne in the past. Is it
exactly spam if you're selling something that's related to the group
you're posting to? I mean - where DO you post R/C sailcar ads? OK -
so this is a 'water' site. The nitro- and gas-powered guys aren't
even gonna look at a sail ad, probably, though maybe they should -
those things aren't slow! Not enough noise for 'em, maybe - or not
enough broken pieces when the thing crashes. (There isn't ANYTHING
like an R/C boat impacting a rock.... - well maybe an R/C plane
impacting a telephone pole, but that's for a different group).
Do I have a point? I'm not sure. If you wanna see a demon poster, go
check www.rcsailing.net and look up doug Lord's posts. He runs a
company called microSail and sells WAY high-tech sailboats. He's a
tireless promoter of his own products. Tireless enough to attract the
ire of others. Wayne does the same. Can't say as I blame him - how
do you sell a product that's really in a niche of its own?
Spam is when you're blowing stuff out to huge audiences without regard
to the recipient - at least Wayne is targetting somebody. (for what
it's worth, I'm not interested in increasing the size of anything - I
don't need to :) :) Not that we have to like it, eh? Just ignore the
posts that don't pertain to you and promote what we DO like - our own
niche of sailing.
For what it's worth, I've never run one of those sailcar thingies - I
almost ran an R/C iceboat, but standing on a cold, frozen windswept
lake while waiting for it to open up and swallow you didn't appeal to
the couch potato in me.
I like hobbies - all hobbies.