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In article <1992Oct05.084013.24430@clarinet.com> brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) writes:
>Talk about over-reaction.  I am quite certain that the number of
>annoyed replies and bad publicity they got will be more than enough
>to educate and punish them for sending this mail.
>

Brad, 


Over-reaction is an understatement.  Some people of the net went as far as
looking up my MX record and threaten me by direct email and also to the
sysadm's at my feed sites.  I am quite upset at the self-righteous attitude
of some of the people when a simple note to me would have been enough.

When I found out about it, I did stop everything. Then the HATE mail started
rolling in.  I have taken over the mail box for abacus@gwinnett.com and 
mail in there has reached over 5 Meg.  A large return for 1.5 Meg total
being sent out. About a dozen people of this mail responded by catting the
man pages back to mail. What a childish reaction!

They (Abacus) learned of their mistake within a short time.  People make
mistakes in real life every day. Are those people of the net faultless??

I do commend the people that in there email just said no thank you.  This
was civil and to the point.  

>Fact is that most people would have already known it would attain this
>negative result, so it really doesn't matter what sort of punishment
>is meted out.  Only people unaware of the punishment would do such
>a blind mailing, so deterrent is not possible.
>
>Myself, I am 100% in favour of electronic junk mail replacing the
>vast gobs of dead trees that land in my physical mailbox every day.
>Once we lay down the patterns so that proper headers are placed on
>the junk mail, then it's far better.  My computer can screen my junk
>mail before I see it, something that doesn't happen on paper.  For
>more details on this argument, please see comp.org.eff.talk where I
>posted before this thread began here.
>
>And calm down on this one.
>-- 
>Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Sunnyvale, CA 408/296-0366


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