Re: What was that?

From: Eugene Baker (ekbaker@essex1.com)
Date: Wed Jan 08 1997 - 18:49:31 EST


At 08:26 AM 1/8/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Paul,
>
>This is just some idiot who says to himself, "let's see now, if I want lots
>of responses, I should just broadcast this to every mailing list and
>newsgroup I can find..." Now not everybody in b-greek is that interested in
>forestry, so this is a bit of an invasion, so the internet community
>*really* frowns on this. The standard response to this, in internet culture,
>is to send as many replies as you have time for, and in each one, mention
>that you don't appreciate his abusing the internet this way.
>
>Jonathan
>

  I tried to respond to the guy, and he has a bogus address. I also got a
follow-up response from somebody who must think that somehow all of us are
responsible for the spam.

  Gene Baker



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