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Article #2282Re: Question about unsolicited Internet Email.
From: Willie Smith
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 15:33
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 15:33
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In article <bvsahl.e4a@wang.com> fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes: > >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. Well, I dunno, it seems to me that a flamefest and mailbombing run on everyone who does such a thing will eventually ensure that newcomers will get the word as soon as they get their network connection. Kind of "Welcome to the net, be sure not to make the following mistakes." Willie Smith wpns@pictel.com [BTW: I didn't get the junk mail, didn't send anything to the idiots who sent it out, and think the folks who sold them network services should have ensured they knew what the net _was_ before taking their money.]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!gatech!rpi!think.com!cass.ma02.bull.com!know!hri.com!noc.near.net!gateway!miki!wpns From: wpns@miki.pictel.com (Willie Smith) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,news.admin.misc Subject: Re: Question about unsolicited Internet Email. Keywords: question legal use email Message-ID: <1992Oct9.153359.4787@miki.pictel.com> Date: 9 Oct 92 15:33:59 GMT References: <1992Oct6.132642.12355@Gwinnett.COM> <1992Oct6.193327.24293@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> <bvsahl.e4a@wang.com> Organization: PictureTel Corporation Lines: 18