Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:01:57 -0500 (CDT) From: Jay Nelson <jdn@acp.qiv.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909281856360.622-100000@acp.qiv.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990928170249.00b1cc70@localhost>
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On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Brett Glass wrote: >At 10:52 PM 9/28/99 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > >> > The bulkanization of email, as you call it, strikes me as a reasonable >> > situation in the face of people who now expect me to pay for the >> > receipt and distribution of their advertising. What the average >> > spammer does, is steal my resources and bandwidth for their own gain. >> > An ISP who allows that activity is an accessory to the theft. >> >>That's "balkanization", as in the division of the balkan states >>between nations at the end of World War II to prevent reuinification >>and thus the potential of another Hitler. > >I think he was trying to make a pun! If he wasn't, it was a very good >unintentional one. (I've repeated it in conversation since.) I hope you are right. It never occured to me though, that a spammer could be equated to Hitler. That took me by surprise;) -- Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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