My response was based entirely upon reading Frank's own posts in the
past, and his previous replies directed to me. What I've learned from
them tells me I can't trust him. What do we really know about this
man to think that he has any higher morals than your typical Catholic
priest? I certainly wouldn't suggest he has committed the crimes
mentioned in the original post, but as I pointed out, we also have no
way of knowing he hasn't.
In the case of this thread, it was an obvious spoofed post that
started it, and no one is foolish enough to report him based upon the
information presented. In other words, people need to stop taking
these things so seriously. Yes, the original post was potentially
harmful, but only to those idiots foolish enough to believe there was
any truth in the actual specifics in it. And they aren't likely to be
customers of Frank in the first place. (Or wait, if they are that
dumb, they may indeed be customers of Frank's. Who knows?)
My response to you Jim is that Frank is far from an "honest" man. His
posts to these groups have proven over and over again how he changes
his stories to try to defend himself. His later posts contradict his
earlier posts. He and his cohorts have come back over and over again
to restart threads that had died weeks previously. Do you all need
the attention that bad? In Frank's case with his attitude, when he
re-opens a thread, he is begging for people to attack him further.
Has he spammed? By the common Usenet perception he has. Can he be
convicted in a criminal court of it? Not likely, the laws regarding
spamming are specific enough to disallow most instances of common
spam.
But in any case, he has "spammed" according to the eBay rules, which
is what this particular group is concerned with. If he violates any
eBay rule he doesn't like, what other rules of society might he
disobey? He agreed to the terms of service when he joined eBay, and
claims himself that he has not followed them, because their
definitions don't match what he would like them to be. That makes him
disrespectable and untrustworthy in my opinion. If others wish to
share that view, or wish to blindly pledge allegiance to him, that is
their choice to make.
jim menning
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