On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 02:42:51PM -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > > I got this from a buddy who works inside Dell: > > Thatÿÿs right, this Tuesday, October 19th at 7am CST, all Home and Home > > office Inspirons over $1499 will be discounted $750! > [snip] > > There really hasnÿÿt been a better time to upgrade your home computer > > until now. > > Okay, now I *will* be the Thought Police. This is pretty much just > spam, no matter how good of a deal it may appear. Please, there's > plenty of web sites and lists for deal-hunters -- setting the > precident for this to be okay on this list is bad. ironically, being one that constantly whines about bad subjects, HTML, top posting and the like, i saw nothing wrong with the heads up. ok, maybe a couple nitpicks. first, it would have been nice to get more notice. :-) but, more importantly, i just checked out www.dell.com and i see no such deal. perhaps a URL to help out. that kind of deal really is worth knowing about, but only if it's legit. rday
