Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 10:11:06 +1100 From: Jonathan Michaels <jon@welearn.com.au> To: Rhiannon <rage@cyberwitch.org> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: responce to recent uce ... Message-ID: <19991129101104.A99725@phoenix.welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911281145400.19609-100000@bytor.rush.net>; from Rhiannon on Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 11:46:20AM -0500 References: <199911241859.UAA01348@noo.kiev.ua> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911281145400.19609-100000@bytor.rush.net>
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all, some thoughts next time the list you participate in gets an unsolicited email aka spam aka junkemail aka rubbish. sorry, i don't write as politely as sue .. On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 11:46:20AM -0500, Rhiannon wrote: > yeh its spam yu dolt, and if yur going to be sending spam to someone who > is in the us, please TYPE IN ENGLISH not all people speak write perfect americanised english, but this issue is secondary to the fact that your responce to the list was unwarrented, as is my own for that matter. one other small curtocy, the charter specfies, your name. by the way, if you really believed that you were responding to uce, and you responded to the originator of the uce and just cc'd to the list then you have given the spaming organisation yet annother valid and hot userid to target and resell, also added to the already high load your isp needs to contend with. the best thisg to do with uce:spam:et al is to dlete it, ignore it, read the headers and complain to the suppliers of the bandwidth being used by the spamers, send the article to some (or all) of the organisations engaged in fighting this plauge called spam. be sure to include all of the headers, well the whole envelope really and maybe the contents as well, it could be a new kid on the block type of spam containing new key triggers for the filtering gurus to work out. complaing to the list is about the most usless thing youas an individual can do, also it consumes yet more bandwidth for no gain ... well ok it may make you feel good for about 30 seconds, but next time please weight the costs, not to your isp, but to all the others in the chain. many people still have to pay by the minute and by the killobyte for thier bandwidth, its bad enought getting this sort of junk email in the forst place but to have people needlessly comment about it consumes even more resources. anyway, i've wasted enough time and bandwith, my apologies. also, i've not been known for a pleasent bedside manner so if my writing style offends you please accept my apologies. i write as i do because this is who i am. warm regards jonathan ps, my speling is as much disorganised by the dsylexia i have as it is by the neurologically damaged hands and arms. also most spelling checkers don't know how to cope with dsylex'd words. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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