"Todd L. Sherman/KB4MHH" wrote: > Bummer. That's what I get waiting three days to check back in the > newsgroups. Probably too late to try to get it now. It's strange that you weren't spending your time in checking that out as quickly as possible instead of writing your very lengthy post, if it was so urgent for you. > <snip><snip><snip> > In this particular case the "spam" definition is technically incorrect. > It was NOT an e-mail totally off topic, I repeat: a special newsgroup, soc.genealogy.marketplace, exists for commercial posts. They are welcome there and I follow that newsgroup. Do you? > <snip> > Also, this person's response was in direct response to another > genealogist's query over the existence of fiche readers for genealogical > use. <snip> That post made no such indication. Perhaps after posting the entire commercial announcement it was too much additional effort to indicate what the intent was. > The first complaint was far too much as it was, and served absolutely no > purpose or point whatsoever. There are people who spend time to fight spam for the benefit of all. I report spam. Do you? > To Keith...thanks. And I appreciate people like you trying to be of real > service and a real, kind, and legitimite HELP to other genealogists like > that. Nobody asked you to keep an eye out for stuff like that for other > people and you did it out of pure kindliness - with no recompense asked. You > deserve KUDOS, not harrassments. He could easily have emailed the person who was interested or have indicated what his purpose had been in posting. His failure to do that led to a misunderstanding. > I hope this negative experience does not > cause you to stop doing just that all because of one negative person. It won't. I'll continue to fight spam. > Todd L. Sherman/KB4MHH > Gainesville, Alachua Co. FL It's still available. Apparently the woman who also complained here wasn't interested, but you may be able to get it for ~$360 as the current rate of exchange. You then only need to pay for shipping from UK to Florida.<LOL> and if you really are serious about wanting to buy a microfiche reader or reader/printer, you might truly be amazed at what you can find available if you do a Google search. Bob