Wave of the Future (Spam)

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote: Isn't that being slightly too severe, and, worst or all, a waste of energy, as other spammers may never realize that it even happened? Here's an alternate suggestion: would it not be more effective if some e-mail spammers turn on the doorstep of other e-mail spammers, bound and covered in tar and feathers, with a very large note attached that reads: "Warning: I was once a spammer too until the UUCP Cabal found me." I suspect that it was spammers, not Internet technology, that really destroyed the UUCP community. When I looked through the number of totally off-topic messages in the newsgroup hierarchy directories on my system, that I didn't even subscribe to, as a result of spam being sent to multiple newsgroups, it was amazing. I didn't have a huge spool partition, and it kept filling up... I only subscribed to a couple of, what should have been, low-volume newsgroups. What was just as annoying was the logic used by those IQ-deficient bizdroid spammers: we're not harming you, all you have to do is delete the messages. I couldn't make them understand that UUCP was a store and forward network, and I was paying extra long-distance charges from UUNET, as I was being forced to receive e-mail and Usenet spam. -- Copyright (C) 2001 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)perqlogic.com 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.perqlogic.com beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.