Re: Training courses for CMMI and Software Estimation techniques @ Hyderabad

CBFalconer <cbfalconer@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Vijay wrote:
Training courses for CMMI and Software Estimation techniques @
Hyderabad

Another spammer to note for avoidance.

Strictly speaking I don't believe it was spam. Google Groups shows 29
copies, but most of them were in Google's own non-Usenet groups (where
it might be considered perfectly appropriate for all I know). It was
only posted to 4 or 5 Usenet groups. The threshold for spam is
traditionally a Breidbart Index of 20 (Google for the definition of
the BI).

It was absolutely inappropriate, but it wasn't spam.

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