From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 28 16: 4:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EFB814F06 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:04:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA17916; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 17:04:07 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990928170249.00b1cc70@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 17:04:02 -0600 To: Terry Lambert , jdn@acp.qiv.com (Jay Nelson) From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199909282252.PAA12756@usr07.primenet.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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.) --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message