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Yes. He isn't trying to advertise a betting company, just asking for help (or possibly the entire code) for software to handle betting.
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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I've asked the authors to explain. It's certainly not helping their chances in the competition.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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You were seconds faster. I already gave my 5 cents to show him the door.
Regards.
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M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I could be even faster, but was really busy giving this person a solution.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Yes, a 5!
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I like the way the Spammer has created two accounts to do this, we'd never spot that, would we...
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And both are gone, thankfully !
Hope that helps. If it does mark it as answer/upvote.
Thanks,
Milind
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Add me to the list who thinks the same as you did.
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Gone, but that took to long.
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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Yes - I think too many people pressed the down-vote button instead of report...spam.
But it is a weekend, so there are less of us around.
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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26729 online, I guess they're not in the lounge though.
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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This user's answer[^] to a question is also spam. Perhaps the hamsters could contact this individual to explain how commercial stuff works here at CP as they have "Marketing - xxxx Software" as their occupation. I think they are clearly working out of ignorance. I'm surprised that this one slipped through though, as the answer was posted back in March.
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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The only time in 9 months this user[^] writes something is just to say this[^].
Might be an error.
Regards.
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M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I don't see anything wrong in just inactivity, even though the post was hopeless. For what reason do we have to worry about?
—SASergey A Kryukov
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I don't see anything wrong with inactivity either. I am myself inactive totally random and maybe for months.
It was just that the very first time he wrote something, it was like trolling message. I would not be the first time I see no movement in a time and then suddenly 5 or 6 spams / troll messages in a row.
Regards.
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M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I did not see trolling (unless you suspect that being silly was actually pretended, for trolling purposes; actually, I think that some extreme stupidity is a good reason to qualify as trolling, regardless of the real reasons of it). Perhaps OP edited the post to eliminate trolling later. I personally think that, in case of any offense, if a member change her/his mind and correct herself/himself, this is enough excuse for not reporting for trolling. Changing one's mind into acceptable behavior should be encouraged and fully respected.
I don't know what happened exactly, because here is what happened next: I quickly replied to this post (the problem was too trivial to bother too much) and removed the post, because it does not have value for other members, and OP apparently lost interest to it, because, for a long time, she/he did not try to answer to a comment to it to clarify the problem. I hope it won't be a big problem, because OP can always ask a question again, if my reply was not enough.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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