From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 23 00:35:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA27942 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 00:35:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (root@haiti-93.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA27937 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 00:35:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA19861 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 10:35:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 10:35:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Get more visitors! In-Reply-To: <199708221639.LAA02587@argus.tfs.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Jim Bryant wrote: > In reply: > > >I'm getting tired of spam... > > As am I. > > > > >I DON'T WANT ANY SPAM!@# > > Unfortunately, I place your posting in the same category. > > I would have prefered to have received neither. You simply > > compounded the problem. > > actually congress compounded the problem by not legislating against > junk email when the bill was before them this year, but then what do > you expect out of conservatives... So has hub.freebsd.org which has appeared in a few spams that I've gotten this month :/. > it's sitting there acting like sheep that compounds the problem... > the "oh i'll just ignore it until it goes away" attitude just doesn't > work. it didn't work with hitler, it didn't work with our > conservative congress either. > > the only way to remove junk email from the net, until legislation > making such illegal is in place, it to simply fight fire with fire, > even if it logjams the entire freaking internet. > > don't write to me, write to your freaking congressman. Yeah, like they're gonna get off their collective asses and do something. - alex