Posted by Adrian A on 07/27/06 17:34

Meng wrote:
> Adrian A wrote:
>
>> Meng wrote:
>>
>>> Krustov wrote:
>>>
>>>> <uk.media.dvd>
>>>> <>
>>>> <27 Jul 2006 04:19:44 -0700>
>>>> <1153999184.339826.164430@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>
>>>>
>>>>> I am a postgraduate research student at Roehampton University
>>>>> currently working on my PhD thesis.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cant you do a thesis on why university students seem to think
>>>> people on usenet are brainless sheep fodder who like nothing
>>>> better than filling in questionaries or surveys .
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, Usenet is full of obnoxious people like you who post
>>> unnecessarily hostile responses to perfectly reasonable requests.
>>>
>>> It's simple: if you have no interest in completing the questionnaire
>>> then don't, and ignore the thread. How difficult is that even for
>>> someone like you?
>>
>>
>> Perfectly reasonable requests? You must be joking! It's almost
>> certainly another spammer harvesting e-mail addresses. You must be a
>> very gullible person if you think it's genuine.
>
> No, not joking, and not gullible either. Unlike you I don't
> automatically assume that anyone making such a post must "almost
> certainly" be a harvester. And as someone else posted, it's easy
> enough to check.

I didn't say that, that's you're assumption. In fact I didn't reply to the
OP. I replied to Meng, who was being obnoxious. It is a fact that many
spammers do use this method.
--
Adrian

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