Re: Personal and Professional Training

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From: JE McGimpsey (jemcgimpsey_at_mvps.org)
Date: 08/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:19:02 -0600

In article <sam457.1b5dr7@excelforum-nospam.com>,
 sam457 <<sam457.1b5dr7@excelforum-nospam.com>> wrote:

> I do applogize for offending anyone.

It's not a matter of being offended. It's a matter of keeping spam off
these groups.

No matter what your intentions, you clearly don't understand the medium
you're posting to:

    - Simply from geography, your target audience is less than 1% of the
total readership of the groups. That alone makes your post spam, since
you wasted the time of 99%+ of us. If everyone who thought they were a
trainer posted a advertisement to the group, the usefulness of the group
would be seriously degraded.

    - You multiposted, so that the majority of regular readers, who read
at least 3 or 4 of the groups you posted to, have to deal with your
advertisement multiple times.

> I...wanted to let others know there is another alternative.

This seems awfully disingenuous. Do you really think that most readers
are unaware that there are trainers available?

> As for the misspelled word, I am human and even though I ran it
> through the spell check it slipped through.

Sorry - don't buy it. If you really ran it through a spell checker, then
you're incompetent in cutting and pasting. Far easier to believe that
you simply failed to spell check. Either way, it doesn't represent you
as someone I'd want to hire.

> You can take my message off if it is that inappropriate.

Again, you clearly don't understand newsgroups. Your post went to
thousands of news servers all over the world - there's no mechanism for
"taking (it) off", and it will be archived by Google forever.

> I am an instructor and do have the competence and knowledge to put
> this out there.

But you are incompetent when it comes to the medium you chose to put
your message "out there". That's not a fatal flaw, but it's also not an
excuse when you're corrected. At best it's irritating. At worst, it
undermines your credibility and makes you look silly.

> I...just want to help!

Me too - that's why I'm replying to you. Please stick around and be
helpful by answering questions. It's appreciated, and it happens to be
excellent advertising (I don't even post a signature line, and I average
multiple inquiries each day).

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