14 Mar
2002
14 Mar
'02
7:13 p.m.
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, James B. DiGriz wrote:
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.
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!
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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