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Eileen, the link above doesn't seem to work, this does

Hi Yves, thanks! I have now fixed the link. :-)

Talking of links, some people occasionaly "Abuse ［of］ our study area for a thinly disguised snake-oil style marketing hype" which is "the height of disrespect" as AuntySue rightly pointed out. I am no longer going to respond to or even name that thread, I suggest we keep the message and just ignore it, but since ChinesePod is able to edit message links, I would suggest they remove or clear it, otherwise, that website would get a free boost from search engines simply by virtue of being refered to from such a high rank, high traffic as ChinesePod.

Hi Goulnik, We have now erased this awful thread. We are usually on top of it but even I was fooled into thinking it was legitimate until Clay pointed it out (to be honest, I only scanned through the first two paragraphs). Spammers are definitely getting smarter and smarter.

AT ChinesePod even spammers get smarter :)

Are there Chinese lessons for spammers here? please stop then, because they seem to be using Chinese to send me email now. :P ha ha (And get this, my hotmail address got used to spend out spam to all those on my [or someone else's] MSN Messenger, all in Chinese, and oddly a friend of mine in America got the email, and wrote a serious note back to me asking how I expected her to be able to read the message in Chinese, as if I purposely sent out something to her. I in turn introduced her to the world of Chinese spam.)

Thanks, goulnik for pointing that thread out. I, too, was offended by such dishonorable tactics.

SPAM in UK, Aus & NZ is a curious collection of 'spiced pork and meat'. It's comes in a tin and looks pretty grim but served people well during WW2. So even saying Spam is marketing of sorts.