15 Mar
2002
15 Mar
'02
7:07 a.m.
Sellam Ismail wrote:
I'm just telling you like it is. It's called outreach. There is gear in
the hands of people who, say, come across the archives from links, who
will have no interest whatsoever in subscribing, and we need to keep it
as easy as possible for them to post, or stuff will get junked that
shouldn't.
I don't think you really mean that. I think you mean you want to stop
spam on the list. Fine. Do that. Careful with the collateral damage is
all I'm saying.
Not going anywhere anytime soon that I know of. I just meant that the
list would no longer be worthwhile for me in that case, too.
jbdigriz
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, James B. DiGriz wrote:
I wouldn't exactly call the sender a rocket scientist, what with begging
for a easy felony conviction, but you're right, that's irrelevant.
Maybe you would find it addresses your annoyance
more satisfactorily to
go to your nearest friendly local ambitious DA keen to to be seen as
tough on Internet fraud, and offer him or her this here low-hanging
fruit. Call in the FTC, FDIC, your bank manager, etc. and set up a
sting. Whatever. Then, when you find out who it is, and where they are,
let me know and I'll gladly go beat the living crap out of them.
Look, I couldn't care less who falls for this scam. The way I see it, it
will just put money in the hands of people smarter than the ones losing
it, and that's a net positive effect.
I just don't want this shit to litter my ClassicCmp inbox. Regular spam
was bad enough, this is simply horrid.
You know, if it was for real, I really would be upset by it. The nerve
of some grafting bureaucrat or despotic politician who probably sucked
the life's blood out of their fellow countrymen whining about being
deprived of their ill-gotten booty. I'd direct them to the nearest
firing squad, not help them get their millions back.
However, annoying as spam may be, I don't see
how that justifies turning
the list into a ghetto. Restricting access because it might be abused is
throwing the baby out with the bathwater. It punishes the innocent as
well as the guilty. That's just wrong, whatever you think about spam.
There's no valid reason for this list to be restricted this way.
HELL-FUCKING-O!?? Whoever said we would be restricting access!? Nothing
personal, James, but you and everyone else who keeps bringing this
non-issue up are idiots! Anyone who wants to post can SUBSCRIBE! That's
why it's called a MAILING LIST! You SUBSCRIBE to a MAILING LIST so that
you can participate!
I don't subscribe to a mailing list so that I can be bombarded with SPAM
from it! FUCK!!!!!!!
It's also damaging. The people we want to
reach are precisely those who
will frankly just not bother to offer old gear to be rescued if they
have to go to the trouble of subscribing.
SCREW THEM THEN! I DON'T WANT THEIR SHIT!
Personally, I will unsubscribe if this happens.
BYE!