werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) (07/26/88)
within the last 3 days I received 2 messages by personal e-mail,
which are clearly of the "junkmail" variety: one from Portal and one
from the "newly founded" Unix Today editor (who had the guts to ask me,
in good old junkmail fashion, for my life-story, including current
salary, for a "planned survey article on industry salaries" - he even
offered to keep the information confidential - HA!!)
I sent back a CLEARLY worded reply, explaining my displeasure, but
knowing how ineffective I have been discouraging telephone solicita-
tion calls, I believe that there is a need to find a way to discourage
"future" reoccurences ...not from the same people, who I trust will
respect my wishes never to hear from them again (though they may well
write to *YOU* next week..), but from the next "smart cookie"
who discovers that this is a cheap way of doing advertising
"on someone else's dime" ... or go prowl the nets for a "sucker"
...after all, some of my best friends are "suckers" ...(-:
"...just another reduction of quality of life on this net ..."
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In article <2943@utastro.UUCP> werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes: >within the last 3 days I received 2 messages by personal e-mail, >which are clearly of the "junkmail" variety > >I sent back a CLEARLY worded reply, explaining my displeasure, but >knowing how ineffective I have been discouraging telephone solicita- >tion calls, I believe that there is a need to find a way to discourage >"future" reoccurences ... E-mail is better than real mail in that you can reply with 500 "STOP SENDING ME JUNK MAIL" messages (easy to do with a script), or, worse still, 50 copes of the rec.humor canonical lightbulb joke list. Hmm, on second thought, I guess that's cruel and unusual punishment. --- These are my opinions, and in no way reflect those of UCSC, which are wrong. Steven Grimm Moderator, comp.{sources,binaries}.atari.st koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu ...!ucbvax!ucscc!ssyx!koreth