🚀 go-pugleaf

I think the reaction here was far, far beyond what was necessary.  The only
appropriate response is something that I've done many times myself, which
is to respond with a message saying "please take me off all your mailing
lists and don't send me anything unsolicited again".  Revenge tactics are
childish, counterproductive, and waste far more of the net's precious
resources than the original act did.

c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) writes:

> As it should be. Any retaliation should achieve several goals:
>
> a. make sure the incident (mistake :-)) does not happen again from the 
>    original site

A simple 1-line note will take care of that.

> b. make sure that others are discouraged again from trying the same
>    thing

Nothing will do this.  The problem will only ever be repeated by new-
comers who have never heard of any prior incidents.  You can't discourage
the people who haven't joined the net yet.

Finally, any approach that uses the word "retaliation" is very misguided.

For god's sake, people, be a little more mellow.

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