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In article <TTB4RB1w165w@cybrspc.UUCP> roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes:
>gtoal@cursci.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
>
>> This is a copy of a letter I've sent to postmaster@emory.edu
>
>And it's followed by a full quote of the offending e-mail.  This is the
>second such _full quote_ I have seen in this thread.

Well, Graham's article is the start of the thread "Junk mail pests",
and yours is a "Re:" to that.  His is the only full or partial quote I
can find in the thread.  Perhaps the other was in another thread of
the same topic, which I've apparently missed.  You can't fault Graham
for posting info already posted to his thread.  Even if it was already
in another thread, perhaps that article hadn't arrived before he
posted, or was in another group that Graham doesn't get.  It's the
nature of Usenet that topical things sometimes get posted multiple
times before the information is thoroughly disseminated.  It's nothing
to get upset about.

>I, too, can easily delete unwanted e-mail... but this is news.  Would
>you care to explain why you have posted exactly that which you objected
>to receiving via e-mail?  If you didn't want to read it, and you truly
>believe it violates net.guidelines, why do you perpetuate it?

Personally, I think it was perfectly acceptable to post the contents,
for those of us who never had the misfortune of seeing the original
in email.  His complaints carry more weight by containing proof of
the subject he's complaining about.

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