On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:57:29 GMT, Bluesea wrote:

> "Mydnight" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:00:55 -0800, "Mike Boucher"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>I emailed the owner on Dragonwater Tea my opinions about tea talk and he
> was
>>>very defensive.
>>>He stated we should all try and help the new people to tea.
>>
>> Granted, but this isn't a forum for him to embellish his site to look
>> more interesting or for us to provide a service to his clientele,
>> this is a newsgroup and should be treated as such.
>>
>>>
>>>While I agree I also told him he should explain more about what a news
> group
>>>is and how it is used.
>>>Personally I feel it is cheesy on his part but that is only my opinion. I
>>>know others may feel differently about it.
>>>I don't ever see myself purchasing anything from his site though.
>>
>> I wouldn't mind some sort of ban on his site or at least some kind of
>> filtering process so we get less 'spam-like' messages. I'm not much
>> to quibble over things like this normally, but it's starting to bother
>> me. How about the rest of you?
>
> I emailed Google asking if he's violating their Terms of Use #4 since his is
> a commercial site and we don't exist to service his website or customers.

How would emailing Google affect anything? Is the store coopting their
newsgroup feed for the site, or is it being taken from an independent
NNTP server?

--
Derek

There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty.
Miss that, though, and you're pretty much doomed.