RE: Harasser spammers

Tim Kemp
Mon, 23 Feb 1998 10:41:39 +0000


At 11:22 20/02/98 -0500, the Managing Director wrote:
>List Manager:
>
>When I got complaints about my ASKING IF I COULD SEND ANY PARTY
>INTERESTED IN GETTING BUSINESS CARDS (I LEFT IT OPEN TO WHERE IF A PARTY
>WAS INTERESTED IN MY MESSAGE THEY COULD ACCESS IT - AND NOT HAVE IT
..
.
blah blah blah, fill in random UPPERCASE bollocks...
..
SAME TREATMENT. THIS IS WORSE THAN
>SPAM BECAUSE IT IS MEAN NASTY SPIRITED AND IT ARRIVED IN MY MAILBOX.
>THIS PARTY SHOULD BE TREATED THE SAME AS ME AND BE UNSUBSCRIBED.
No he shouldn't, he generally has something to say about acid-jazz as well.
As do us all, except you.

>MAINTAINED POLITENESS
You are not maintaining politeness now, you are shouting. That's what
writing in UPPERCASE means.
The difference between you and the complainer? He sent a one liner that was
actually amusing, whereas you sent your crap to a mailing list so hundreds
of people around the world, interested in talking about acid jazz, not
business cards or whatever, got it.
He didn't try to hide his message behind some other stuff, like you. He
didn't send several attatchements, like you.
Some people have to PAY for their email access, which means all those
suspiciously short (right length for a macro virus) Word documents had to be
downloaded by guys running 28.8 links.

This makes you *directly* responsible for their increased phone bills this
quarter.

If you want to unsubscribe, read the FAQ, it tells you how. Its also got
some rules for the list, like NO ADVERTISING.
As for the 'harrassment' you recieved, I don't think someone laughing at you
is necessarily harrassment or even a threat. It's not, its a fact of life,
and if you've got problems dealing with that in the real world I'd suggest
that the Internet is not the proper place to excorcise your demons and come
to terms with your myriad personality disorders. Sorry for the long words,
but if you can type you can read and there's a dictionary in your local library.

Do us a favour and find somewhere else more receptive to your selfish
timewasting rubbish.
How about /dev/null?

(A slightly ticked-off) Tim K
pp0u7078@liv.ac.uk

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