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Old 08-22-2002, 02:22 PM  
Frank W
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: California
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I think I would file this under the "Self-Ridicule" advertising tactic.

Elements: post a funny subject accompanied by a mildly amusing self-deprecating joke.

Payload: located in the sig.


Watch out for it: I'll be posting the MASTER list of all the advertising tactics [conscious and unconscious] used in GFY and, the ultimate spammers paradise, Usenet.
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