From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 28 17:30:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from tok.qiv.com (tok.qiv.com [205.238.142.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AE4615783 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 17:30:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdn@acp.qiv.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tok.qiv.com (MailHost/Current) with UUCP id TAA50798; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:30:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (jdn@localhost) by acp.qiv.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA00712; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:01:57 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jdn@acp.qiv.com) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:01:57 -0500 (CDT) From: Jay Nelson To: Brett Glass Cc: Terry Lambert , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990928170249.00b1cc70@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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