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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: spam
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:10:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85hdb6ynb9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uacgy47tr.fsf@verizon.net>

Joe Fineman <joe_f@verizon.net> writes:

> jimmij <jimmij@jj.jj> writes:
>
>> Why there is so much spam on gnu.emacs.gnus?
>> I don't know other group with such amount of spam messages...
>
> gnu.emacs.bug is even worse.  It is almost all spam.  Someone seems
> to have made a marketing decision that people who use Emacs are
> males who need special help in getting erections.  Maybe they know
> something I don't.

I find that emacsclient works almost instantaneously.  Getting Emacs
up is overrated.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-25  9:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-22 12:07 spam jimmij
2005-10-24 21:25 ` spam David Z Maze
2005-10-25  3:02 ` spam Joe Fineman
2005-10-25  9:10   ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-10-25  9:29   ` spam David Hansen
2015-01-23  3:50 alt-tab? really? you're joking Hikaru Ichijyo
2015-01-24  0:12 ` incal
2015-01-24  4:40   ` Hikaru Ichijyo
     [not found]     ` <mailman.18502.1422100844.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2015-01-24 23:40       ` Hikaru Ichijyo
2015-01-25 22:19         ` Adam Sjøgren
2015-01-26  8:15           ` Tassilo Horn
     [not found]             ` <mailman.18642.1422267150.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2015-01-27  0:15               ` Hikaru Ichijyo
2015-01-27  1:21                 ` spam (was: alt-tab? really? you're joking...) incal
2015-01-27  2:51                   ` spam Hikaru Ichijyo
2015-01-27  3:11                     ` spam incal

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