As a professional, I don't know how you can consider the email in question spam. The email was to introduce a professional conference. Designed to help you in you job. If the conference is being held at a place too far away or costs far too much, there is a delete key. But I would much rather be aware of any and all opportunities to increase my knowledge and abilities.

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>Hugh
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>Thanks for the "heads-up" re the quality of the offered service. Obviously you can achieve benefit from his service and already appreciate its value.
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>Hopefully you also consider that people in Germany, Asia and (dare I say it) New Zealand, may not share your perspective re value. If such people received an e-mail offering training in the midwest USA, they may well regard it as Spam- unsolicited advertising for a product they cannot use. This does not mean the service is rubbish.
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>I agree, these forums allow many people to state their piece. I also agree with you that we need to be able to consider other viewpoints without "knowing" we are right every time. In this case, the extensive "publicity" means that e-mailing people on UT re services is clearly a sensible thing to do. Presumably this is the result we wanted.
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>Regards
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>JR