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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Real or Onion? Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 8:50 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	For Orlando Soto, No Day Is Complete Without Spam
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Matthew Grieco	Post subject: Re: Real or Onion? Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 8:59 pm
Joined: Mon Mar 10, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 2266 Location: New Jersey	Wall Street Journal.
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Rio	Post subject: Re: Real or Onion? Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 1:06 am
Joined: Thu Apr 11, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 887 Location: U.S.A.	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by blanp: For Orlando Soto, No Day Is Complete Without Spam<hr></blockquote><p>Just what we need: an article that touts how lucrative spamming can be, thereby encouraging more of those jerks to get in the business.<p>I feel bad for Soto. That guy definitely needs a life.
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SeaRaven	Post subject: Re: Real or Onion? Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 2:22 am
Joined: Tue Sep 30, 2003 12:01 am Posts: 1112 Location: An undisclosed alpine meadow	I don’t know which is more disheartening: learning of Orlando Soto’s pathetic life, or seeing a Wall Street Journal headline padded out with a superfluous “some.”
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larepublica	Post subject: Re: Real or Onion? Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 10:12 am
Joined: Fri Nov 28, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 399 Location: Lesotho, where it does snow	A spam-loving 45 year-old grandfather? Either he is a loser, a joke, a fabrication or a combination of all three. I am glad the Wall Street Journal has every thing else in the world so well covered that they can devote space to this pressing issue...
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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Re: Real or Onion? Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 11:27 am
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by larepublica: A spam-loving 45 year-old grandfather? Either he is a loser, a joke, a fabrication or a combination of all three. I am glad the Wall Street Journal has every thing else in the world so well covered that they can devote space to this pressing issue...<hr></blockquote><p>I am awfully suspicious but the Wall Street Journal is a well-edited newspaper.
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Rio	Post subject: Re: Real or Onion? Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 1:54 am
Joined: Thu Apr 11, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 887 Location: U.S.A.	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by larepublica: A spam-loving 45 year-old grandfather? Either he is a loser, a joke, a fabrication or a combination of all three. I am glad the Wall Street Journal has every thing else in the world so well covered that they can devote space to this pressing issue...<hr></blockquote><p>The WSJ devotes much of its reporting resources to coming up with "light" features for the front page. Some are memorable and worth the read; I actually enjoyed the one about the world's largest Kmart, which happens to be in Guam. This effort, though, was a waste of time.
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