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In article <AEJ.92Oct3123817@manyjars.WPI.EDU> aej@manyjars.WPI.EDU (Allan E Johannesen) writes:
>To: abaqus@guinnett.com postmaster@emory.mathcs.emory.edu postmaster@hubcap.clemson.edu
>Subject: Unsolicited Advertisement
>
>Some may disagree, but I believe that mailing unsolicited advertisements is not
>acceptable use for the Internet.

Bear in mind that it's not just the Internet, but _every_ network
needed to reach anyone on Global's mailing list, not to mention
resources consumed at mail switches/gateways, end systems etc. some
of which may have prohibitions on commercial traffic that are
stronger than those of the US Internet.

I'm sure that if commercial junk mail was distributed throughout US
academic networks from an address in another country, the US would
expect that country to take strong action. There was a recent case
where an advertisement was submitted to some BITNET lists via a
Brazilian university; an apology followed shortly from the university,
and added that the person's network access had since been revoked.

This is of course much worse, as it is an independent list, compiled
by goodness knows what means. Have these people got my phone number
and address (from my .sig) on file too?