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You do not get it.  I will tell you.  I hope you will
get it.

You spammed.

We do not like spam.  Spam is bad.  Spam hurts the net.
We like the net.  So we do not like spam.  In fact, we
hate spam.

What is spam?  Spam is the same thing lots and lots
of times.

What is lots and lots?  We will not tell you.  Why?
We think you might post one less, and then say it is
not spam.  But we will tell you this: count the things on
your hands and feet.  It is near that.

What is spam not?  Spam is not a bad post.  Spam is not
a bad post lots and lots of times.  Spam is not a post
in the wrong place.  Spam is not a bad post in the wrong
place lots and lots of times.

Spam is the same thing lots and lots of times.

We do not care what is in a spam.  We do not care if it
is in the right place or the wrong place.  If we cared,
that would be bad.  If we did not like a post, we could
say it is bad, so it is spam.  Or we could say it is in the
wrong place, so it is spam.  That would be worse than spam.
So we say a thing is spam if it is the same thing lots
and lots of times.

One more time: spam is the same thing lots and lots
of times.

Why is spam bad?  The more times it is there, the more
room it takes on each site's disk, and the more time it
takes to get it to all of the sites.  It should take just
a small bit of room on each site's disk, and take just a
small bit of time to get there.  So spam is a lot of waste.

Why else is spam bad?  The more times it is there, the more
times we have to see it.  Some folks pay for their news by
the note, or by the byte, or by how much time it takes them
to get it.  Some have to pay for each post in a group they
read, and their site does not care if they read the post.
So spam is not fair.

Why else is spam bad?  Spam makes folks mad.  They post
notes and say that they are mad.  Lots and lots of notes.
We call these notes "flames."  So spam makes lots and lots
of flames.

Why is a small spam bad?  Some folks think that if a small
thing is not bad, then the same thing big is not bad too.
So if a small spam is not yelled at, then there will be
lots and lots of big spams.

What did you do?  You sent the same thing lots and lots
of times.  So you spammed.  Spam is bad.

We do not care what you said.  We do not care if it was
in the right place.  You sent the same thing lots and lots
of times.  That is spam.  That is bad.

Some folks like to get rid of spam when they see it.
We think that is good.  We like them.  We think they
are good.

When they get rid of spam, they get rid of all of it.
They do not try to think if some of the posts are in the
wrong place and just get rid of those ones.  That would
be bad.  As bad as to say that a post is spam if they did
not like it.  No, they get rid of all of them.  That is
the right way to get rid of spam.

Not all folks think we should do this.  There are a few,
like Dave Hayes, who think spam should be left there, that
we should all be free to spam and spam and spam.  But there
are lots and lots more who think spam should be got rid of.

Why are we mad at you?  You spammed.  But there is more:
when we said we were mad, you said you did not spam.
And you said few of us were mad.  And you said your spam
was not bad because it was in the right place.  And you
said that we should not get rid of it.  Or that we should
not get rid of the ones in the right place.

You said you will do it no more.  We do not know if we
think that is true.  Why?  You said things that we think
are bad.  You did things that we think are bad.  So we do
not trust you.  We think you might do it the next time you
think of a thing you want lots and lots of folks to hear.

How can you make us think you will do it no more, and that
you are good folks?

(1) Say that what you did was spam. (2) Say that what you did was bad. (3) Say that you feel bad since you did this bad thing. (4) *Then* say that you will do it no more.

Then we might trust you. Then we might not be mad at you. That is not too hard for you to get, is it?

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