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In article <1917@thanatos.win-uk.net>, Paul Burridge
<URL:mailto:osiris@thanatos.win-uk.net> wrote:
>  
> In article <ant1517490b0XL#k@pharpech.demon.co.uk>, Dave Roberts
> (Dave@pharpech.demon.co.uk) writes:
> 
> >Phone up your ISP and ask them what you could do about it? Post to a
> >newsgroup asking what you might do about it? Ask any technical friends you
> >may know what to do about it? This guy is a Dr and I believe worked at a
> >uni. If so, he even had the option of asking in the uni computing
> >department what he might do about it, especially the newsmaster there...
> 
> Not being a computer nerd, I would simply assume that nothing
> *could* be done about it.

I'm sure you didn't get where you are today by assuming stuff couldn't be
done because you didn't know about it... If you have a problem in a
situation in which you are unfamiliar you normally ask someone who is
familiar what you should do. Don't you?

> After all, it's highly unlikely that I'd be the only one to spot it. How
> many others would have done so by the time the newsgroup in your
> suggestion responded to the question, even if it occurred to me to pose
> it?

A lot less than would have done if you simply decided to fax all the ISPs
you could find to ask them to remove it. If it had even occurred to you to
phone up your ISP (most have a helpline to help their subscribers with
problems) then the answer would be a lot faster.

-- 
Dave Roberts

Dave@pharpech.demon.co.uk