Re: notifying particular thread to wake up.

On Oct 10, 2:11 am, Lew <l...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
bbo...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
"Posting commercial messages to a USENET group is a violation of this
policy unless that specific USENET group has invited commercial
postings in its charter."

The posting about which you complained was not a commercial posting.

Yes, it was. It was an ad, for crying out loud. And the citations
(plural) DO support the statement that was currently being disputed,
namely that commercial messages are generally disliked on Usenet,
*regardless* of whether you consider that much earlier posting to be
an example of such.

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