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Re: abuse@ihug.co.nz (was Re: The end of the NT OEM debate.)

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From: Ross Dawson
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 00:00
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"Earl Intemann" <IMNawT@xtra.co.nz> wrote:

>Personally I see it as a very good choice in email address.  No Idiot is
>going to send spam to something that remotely looks like something to do
>with the inner workings of an ISP.  If I had the chance and the intuition to
>think up something like that I would, cos god knows I cant afford $20,000
>hubs, I dont want to buy video conferencing kits from amerca, and I sure
>dont want to join some crappy pyramid email marketing scheme.
>
>I consider a bad email address to be something this.
>ive.got.a.long.email.address@nospam.some.server.gen.net.nz . cos its just
>too damn long  Just because mine is IMNawT, doesn't mean to say that I am a
>troublemaking prick.

I think the real point is being missed here, and that is it is not his
email address to use, there is an official IHUG address of
abuse@ihug.co.nz so he really has no right to use that address.


Cheers for now.

Ross Dawson.
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From: dawsonr@ihug.co.nz (Ross Dawson)
Subject: Re: abuse@ihug.co.nz (was Re: The end of the NT OEM debate.)
Date: 1999/06/26
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