jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend) (06/19/91)
I've started to get junk email from vendors who are mailing to various user group list. Their from address doesn't seem to exist. Who do I complain to? This is an obviously blatant violation of NSF net work policies. Plus, it's pretty damn annoying. -- J. Eric Townsend - jet@uh.edu - bitnet: jet@UHOU - vox: (713) 749-2126 Skate UNIX! (curb fault: skater dumped) PowerGlove mailing list: glove-list-request@karazm.math.uh.edu
jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend) (06/22/91)
In article <3784@happym.WA.COM> Irving_Wolfe@happym.wa.com writes: >In <1991Jun19.165827.17112@menudo.uh.edu> jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend) writes: >>I've started to get junk email from vendors who are mailing to >>various user group list. > ^^^^ ^^^^^ >>Their from address doesn't seem to exist. > ^^^^^ ^^^^ >>Who do I complain to? This is an obviously blatant violation of NSF >>net work policies. Plus, it's pretty damn annoying. > ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ [...] >Second, you learn the language of the country you are visiting, >before posting vulgarities, grammatical errors, etc. I know this is a joke posting, but keep in mind that USNET is not the real world. In the real world, I have a BA Journalism and was editor-in-chief for a small newspaper. >Well, fellow netter, I hope you realize that this followup is in >jest, yet it is also serious in its way. You missed the entire point of my original message. I was talking about junk email over NSF networks, not junk USENET posts. I know USENET != Internet. (As a matter of fact, I spent an hour on the phone with `Tailgunner' Joe Abernathy trying to explain to him that very fact.) -- J. Eric Townsend - jet@uh.edu - bitnet: jet@UHOU - vox: (713) 749-2126 Skate UNIX! (curb fault: skater dumped) PowerGlove mailing list: glove-list-request@karazm.math.uh.edu
ben@wri.com (Ben Cox) (06/22/91)
In <3784@happym.WA.COM> Irving_Wolfe@happym.wa.com writes: >First, you stop feeling superior to others, which you are not. Pot. Kettle. Black. -- Ben Cox ben@wri.com
georgerj@motcid.UUCP (Richard J. George) (06/22/91)
Irving_Wolfe@happym.wa.com writes: > ... but you >made too many stupid errors to be a native. ... Pray, tell me where this mystical country is where the natives don't make too many stupid errors :-) RJG
dpassage@soda.berkeley.edu (David G. Paschich) (06/22/91)
In article <1991Jun21.180803.24966@menudo.uh.edu>, jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend) writes: In article <3784@happym.WA.COM> Irving_Wolfe@happym.wa.com writes: >In <1991Jun19.165827.17112@menudo.uh.edu> jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend) writes: >>I've started to get junk email from vendors who are mailing to >>various user group list. > ^^^^ ^^^^^ >>Their from address doesn't seem to exist. > ^^^^^ ^^^^ >>Who do I complain to? This is an obviously blatant violation of NSF >>net work policies. Plus, it's pretty damn annoying. > ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ [...] >Second, you learn the language of the country you are visiting, >before posting vulgarities, grammatical errors, etc. I know this is a joke posting, but keep in mind that USNET is not the real world. In the real world, I have a BA Journalism and was editor-in-chief for a small newspaper. [more pointless bickering] -- J. Eric Townsend - jet@uh.edu - bitnet: jet@UHOU - vox: (713) 749-2126 Skate UNIX! (curb fault: skater dumped) PowerGlove mailing list: glove-list-request@karazm.math.uh.edu I think the last line of Mr. Townsend's .sig is pretty ironic. He's complaining about commercial postings to mailing lists while at the same time running a mailing list devoted to a single product. As far as I'm concerned, junk mail in your electronic mail box is pretty much like junk mail in your real mail box -- annoying as hell, likely to make me avoid the vendor, but not something I'd make illegal. -- David G. Paschich Open Computing Facility UC Berkeley dpassage@ocf.berkeley.edu "Can Spam increase sexual potency? `No!' say scientists!" -- Trygve Lode
jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend) (06/22/91)
In article <DPASSAGE.91Jun21120033@soda.berkeley.edu> dpassage@soda.berkeley.edu (David G. Paschich) writes: >In article <1991Jun21.180803.24966@menudo.uh.edu>, > jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend) writes: > PowerGlove mailing list: glove-list-request@karazm.math.uh.edu > >I think the last line of Mr. Townsend's .sig is pretty ironic. He's >complaining about commercial postings to mailing lists while at the >same time running a mailing list devoted to a single product. Hey, I'm also on the sun-managers mailing list. Tons of vendor-specific information get shoved around in the name of research. There's a big difference between "How do I make an <x> do <foo>?" and "Today and today only, RAM for only $39 a Megabyte! Call now!" -- J. Eric Townsend - jet@uh.edu - bitnet: jet@UHOU - vox: (713) 749-2126 Skate UNIX! (curb fault: skater dumped) PowerGlove mailing list: glove-list-request@karazm.math.uh.edu