Bagel Formers

After years of fooling around with one stupid rounder belt a=ADfter another, a friend of mine clued me in to a manufacturer that=AD actually

offers a "choice" of several belts for rounding / forming ba=ADgels on my Empire former. It seems that the stitched belt I was using =ADwas too soft to keep the stitching intact. So my splice kept failin=ADg. Then I tried a truly endless belt, but it buckled up in the middle.=AD These guys had a harder belt that really held up well. I recently=AD saw their=20 ad.

You know what's an amazing coincidence? Your posting IP, 207.237.35.254, resolves to central Connecticut.

And look! Here's the domain registration info:

Registrant New England Belting Company New England Belting Company snipped-for-privacy@websitedepartment.com 1000 Farmington Avenue West Hartford, CT 06107 US +1.8602318484

And you just saw their ad?

My apologies. I was overly creative last night. I made two posts- one each to rec.food.restaurants and one to rec.food.baking. Not spam, but not very intelligent (or creative) either. Call me a liar, or spammer, or whatever. Again, I apologize.

Not spam? That a "friend" "clued you in" to the product? Well, let's look at the history of

in Google groups:

--------------------------------------- Feb 23 1998, 12:00 am Newsgroups: aol.neighborhood.ma.jobs From: "greywolf2000" Date: 1998/02/23 Subject: Sales, Conveyor Belting, Eastern New England

SALES Industrial distributor for European belting requires aggressive salesperson for outside sales & service. Territory is eastern New England. Candidate should be experienced in selling European conveyer & PT belting. Competitive benefits & advancement potential in a growing organization. Reply to: snipped-for-privacy@erols.com, or write to: J775 Globe Office, Boston Globe, P.O. Box 2378, Boston, MA 02107-2378

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Whaddaya know. You wouldn't have a *connection* to belting, would you?

Yes I do, Scott.

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