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TAFORD@DELPHI.COM wrote,
>Subject:      Income Opportunities from Investment Banker - Interested?
>X-To:         circplus@idbsu.idbsu.edu, cmspip-l@vm.marist.edu,...
>              [zillions of listnames deleted]
>              ...
>To:           Multiple recipients of list SCRIPT-L <SCRIPT-L@UGA.BITNET>
>
>Please send inquiries/replies to:   taford@delphi.com

I sent them the following reply:
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 The list SCRIPT-L exists to carry on discussions and exchange technical
 information regarding the Waterloo SCRIPT and IBM SCRIPT document formatting
 languages/processors.  The various other Bitnet discussion lists to which you
 also posted likewise each have a particular technical scope.  Each of these
 lists is read by numerous data processing professionals, usually on company
 time and using the employer's computing resources, because the technical
 discussions on the lists have business value to the employer.

 By posting material unrelated to the purpose of each list, you are wasting the
 computer resources, and the human resources, of thousands of businesses and
 educational instutions worldwide.  Such action constitutes theft and/or
 trespassing.  If you think either of these words is too strong, ask yourself
 how you would be expected to be treated if you wandered through the work area
 of any company and gave your sales pitch in person to each worker.  The fact
 that you are doing this electronically, from the comfort and safety of your
 own keyboard, does not make it any less of an intrusion to those of us who are
 on the receiving end.


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I'd like to encourage others who feel as I do about this to reply directly to
the offending party, and suggest including the entire text, header, etc.  of
the offending message.  If you wish to share your thoughts with the list,
however, please keep the inclusion very brief; otherwise, it adds to the
"wasted bandwidth" problem that we are complaining about.


Mark C. Lawrence
Systems Programmer     Internet: M.Lawrence@Forsythe.Stanford.edu
Stanford Data Center     Bitnet: M.Lawrence@STANFORD
Stanford, CA 94305-4136     Tel: (415) 723-4976

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