Re: [rant] Re: Spamming (Good or Bad?)

[snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>]

On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Alan Olsen wrote:
> At 05:49 PM 8/20/96 +0000, Ross Wright wrote:
> >On Or About 20 Aug 96, 16:23, Jim Gillogly wrote:
> >> Vipul Ved Prakash <vipul@pobox.com> writes:
> >> >I don't know if there has been much discussion on the ethics of
> >> >spamming here? Is spamming free speech? 
> >> I oppose spamming because it's rude and inefficient, lowering the
> >> S/N everywhere it happens.  Market droids
> >Market Droids????  As a salesman I take offence at this slur.
> It is a mild term compared to some of the things that could be said about sales.
> I have dealt with far too many sales people.  Few of them knew anything
> about the products that they were selling.  (This is especially true of the
> computer field.  "Do you know the difference between a computer salesman and
> a car salesman?  The car salesman knows how to drive.")

     The way I heard it was that the Car Salesman knew he was lying. 

> But then, rarely does truth enter into the matter of sales...
> Sales people have a bad reputation for a very good reason.  If they actually
> had a basic understanding of what they were selling, and were not so
> untrustworthy as to not commit to things that are not deliverable, they
> would have that reputation.

     Then they would not be sales people. Good salesmen are like good 
governments. Very Very Rare. 


o.b. Crypto: Uh...Uh...Uh... Testing one way hashes on SalesDroids. 


Petro, Christopher C.
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