Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 17:04:02 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, jdn@acp.qiv.com (Jay Nelson) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19990928170249.00b1cc70@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199909282252.PAA12756@usr07.primenet.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909241849240.1185-100000@acp.qiv.com>
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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
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