Re: Software protection against cracks and piracy

str2@xxxxxxx writes:
[snip]
>> I've deleted the name of the product to avoid giving it any more free
>> advertising.

Please learn to post properly. I wrote the above, but you didn't
attribute it to me.

[snip]

>> By responding positively, you encourage the spammer to continue
>> spamming, potentially damaging a forum where most of us just want to
>> discuss the C programming language. Please don't do that.
>
> Generally I guess that any commercial post in usergroups is called as
> 'spam'

Usenet spam is generally defined as a posting whose Breidbart Index
exceeds some specified value. I actually don't know whether the
advertisement that started this thread qualifies as spam in that
sense. It does appear to have been sent to at least 8 different
newsgroups.

It may or may not be spam. It is certainly off-topic garbage.

> But:
> 1. This is not V****ra or p**is enlargement advert. :)) This is enough
> relevant subjet.

No.

> 2. The message text "smells" like rather a software news than an
> advetising.

This newsgroup discusses the C programming language. It is not a
forum for software announcements that have nothing to do with the
language.

> 3. Advertising in google groops is spam. This is rule. But all rule is
> prooved by exception. :-) And as for me, I'd consider this post as the
> 'exception" :)

First, this is not groups.google.com. This is Usenet, to which
groups.google.com provides an interface.

Second, exceptions don't prove rules; they disprove them. A Google
search for "the exception proves the rule" will give you numerous
explanations of the misconception.

Finally, this post was not even vaguely topical for this newsgroup.
The fact that it was an advertisement, posted by someone who has never
posted anything here other than off-topic advertisements, makes it
particularly offensive.

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@xxxxxxx <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.
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