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Started by Uncle Al
Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:00
Anti-spam Strategy
Author: Uncle Al
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:00
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Mailed to president@whitehouse.gov 14 August 1997
Dear Mr. President:
(Right. This missive will make it past the clerical staff as anything
other than a one digit statistic.)
I receive perhaps 200+ unsolicited junk e-mails, spams, each week. The
problem progressively worsens with time. I and 60 million other
Americans are mad as Hell. Do you desire a public policy issue to
render you a hero? Step forward and condemn spam. Request legislation
to render it controllable or outright illegal and with heinous
penalities for perserverative abusers.
(This does not touch territory fouled by the Communications Decency
Act. Contact somebody in government with realistic knowledge. Charles
Swett comes to mind - "Wired" magazine, 4.10, October 1996, p. 74.)
I am going to help you. I am going to foreward to
president@whitehouse.gov every single enraging byte of crap e-mail I
receive. I have solicited all my acquaintances online to do the same.
My homepage gets 2000-3000 hits/day. It will carry this solicitation
starting a month from now.
60 million Americans eat spam every time we log into our e-mail. Come,
join the feast. Or put an END to it.
With due respect, thank you.
--
Uncle Al Schwartz
UncleAl0@ix.netcom.com ("zero" before @)
http://www.ultra.net.au/~wisby/uncleal.htm
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children, Democrats, and most mammals)
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" The Net!
Re: Anti-spam Strategy
Author: Dr. Ginsu
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 00:00
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Uncle Al wrote: > > Mailed to president@whitehouse.gov 14 August 1997 > > Dear Mr. President: > > > I am going to help you. I am going to foreward to > president@whitehouse.gov every single enraging byte of crap e-mail I > receive. I have solicited all my acquaintances online to do the same. > My homepage gets 2000-3000 hits/day. It will carry this solicitation > starting a month from now. > > Hey, you know, this is a really damned good idea! I'm gonna try it! If I get arrested, I'll just claim religious persecution. Keep It Up, Dr. Ginsu
Re: Anti-spam Strategy
Author: Michael Karl
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 00:00
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In dc.politics Dr. Ginsu <jch1@voicenet.com> wrote: : Uncle Al wrote: : > : > Mailed to president@whitehouse.gov 14 August 1997 : > : > Dear Mr. President: : > : > : > I am going to help you. I am going to foreward to : > president@whitehouse.gov every single enraging byte of crap e-mail I : > receive. I have solicited all my acquaintances online to do the same. : > My homepage gets 2000-3000 hits/day. It will carry this solicitation : > starting a month from now. : > : > : Hey, you know, this is a really damned good idea! I'm gonna try it! If : I get arrested, I'll just claim religious persecution. What you are doing is terrorism. I hope that you do get arrested, indeed. While you're at it, why not send every piece of junk postal mail to the white house, too. Sending one piece of email/mail to a million people is mildly annoying to each of them. Sending a million pieces of mail to one person is harassment. Doing it as a means of demanding that the person submit to your will is terrorism. It'd be nifty if all of you who do this were prosecuted under those new "anti-terrorist" laws. Words of the Sentient: Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter. -- Stephen Carter
Re: Anti-spam Strategy
Author: Dr. Ginsu
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 00:00
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Michael Karl wrote: > > In dc.politics Dr. Ginsu <jch1@voicenet.com> wrote: > > > Sending one piece of email/mail to a million people is mildly > annoying to each of them. Sending a million pieces of mail to one person > is harassment. Doing it as a means of demanding that the person submit to > your will is terrorism. Not when that person is an Elected Official, a "Public Servant" hired by me to execute my will. It's protest, and it's the voice of the people, stupid. "oh, no, I'd rather voice my complaints IN SECRET, where nobody with any clout can do anything about them. That way, I get to complain longer!" Shake your moneymaker, Ginsu
Re: Anti-spam Strategy
Author: RevLurch
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 00:00
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"Dr. Ginsu" <jch1@voicenet.com> wrote: >Uncle Al wrote: >> >> Mailed to president@whitehouse.gov 14 August 1997 >> >> Dear Mr. President: >> >> >> I am going to help you. I am going to foreward to >> president@whitehouse.gov every single enraging byte of crap e-mail I >> receive. I have solicited all my acquaintances online to do the same. >> My homepage gets 2000-3000 hits/day. It will carry this solicitation >> starting a month from now. >> >> >Hey, you know, this is a really damned good idea! I'm gonna try it! If >I get arrested, I'll just claim religious persecution. >Keep It Up, >Dr. Ginsu I think this is a lousy idea. What's the desired result? Getting Willie and and a bunch of shadowy, unelected Govt' spooks to come barging in and protect us from spam? They may not need that goddam CDA trojan horse after all. Let's just yowl and howl and roll out the red carpet. Once you get 'em in you won't be able to get 'em out. lurch
Re: Anti-spam Strategy
Author: A Sovereign Individual
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 00:00
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You can email the whitehouse autosponder evry three days, and then one message at a time for limited length, what can of hair brained idea is this, if you don't like UCE, buy software to prevent it RevLurch wrote: > > "Dr. Ginsu" <jch1@voicenet.com> wrote: > > >Uncle Al wrote: > >> > >> Mailed to president@whitehouse.gov 14 August 1997 > >> > >> Dear Mr. President: > >> > >> > >> I am going to help you. I am going to foreward to > >> president@whitehouse.gov every single enraging byte of crap e-mail I > >> receive. I have solicited all my acquaintances online to do the same. > >> My homepage gets 2000-3000 hits/day. It will carry this solicitation > >> starting a month from now. > >> > >> > > >Hey, you know, this is a really damned good idea! I'm gonna try it! If > >I get arrested, I'll just claim religious persecution. > > >Keep It Up, > >Dr. Ginsu > > I think this is a lousy idea. What's the desired result? Getting > Willie and and a bunch of shadowy, unelected Govt' spooks to come > barging in and protect us from spam? They may not need that goddam CDA > trojan horse after all. Let's just yowl and howl and roll out the red > carpet. > > Once you get 'em in you won't be able to get 'em out. > > lurch
Re: Anti-spam Strategy
Author: Dr. Ginsu
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 00:00
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A Sovereign Individual wrote: > > You can email the whitehouse autosponder evry three days, and then one > message at a time for limited length, what can of hair brained idea is > this, if you don't like UCE, buy software to prevent it > > I have, and I'm boning up on my programming skills to write a program to do my own cancellations. Is that enough of a "self-starter" for you? Keep It Up, Dr. Ginsu
Re: Anti-spam Strategy
Author: Oscar the Grouch (formerly Mark)
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 00:00
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Dr. Ginsu wrote: > > Michael Karl wrote: > > > > In dc.politics Dr. Ginsu <jch1@voicenet.com> wrote: > > > > > > Sending one piece of email/mail to a million people is mildly > > annoying to each of them. Sending a million pieces of mail to one person > > is harassment. Doing it as a means of demanding that the person submit to > > your will is terrorism. > > Not when that person is an Elected Official, a "Public Servant" hired by > me to execute my will. It's protest, and it's the voice of the people, > stupid. Stupid huh, sending either 1,000,000 UCE's to 1 person or 1 UCE to 1,000,000 people is the voice of the people. Yeah right, and you called the previous poster stupid. > "oh, no, I'd rather voice my complaints IN SECRET, where nobody with any > clout can do anything about them. That way, I get to complain longer!" Complain away, I don't have to listen. Oh, by the way that is my right, not to listen that is. > Shake your moneymaker, > Ginsu -- Mark http://www.whew.com ------------------- Unsolicited Commercial E-MAIL is not you practicing FREE SPEECH. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Unsolicited Commercial E-MAIL is an infringement into my solitude. ------------------------------------------------------------------
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