Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!van-bc!sl
From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Solutions to USENET Map Abuse
Message-ID: <284@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 89 07:12:29 GMT
References: <2049@avsd.UUCP> <14377@looking.on.ca>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates
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In article <14377@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>to contact local USENET sites by postal mail, why are the flames
>just as much?
>
>If somebody has a product or service that would be of enough value to
>USENET admins that they would pay for it, how do you suggest that the
>message be communicated.  Mind reading?

I'm sure the good folks at Unix Review, Unix World, Unix Today or a whole
host of other magazines would be very happy to take their money :-)

I agree with Brad that this discussion seems to be another tempest in a 
teacup. If someone wants to scrounge my address from my map entry and target 
mail at it, more power to them.

Maybe we need another line in our map entries to clarify things:

#N	van-bc
#S	Callan Unistar 300; System V Uniplus+   4.2.2.L3
#O	SCO Xenix 2.3.2 / 386
#C	Stuart Lynne
#E	van-bc!sl
#T	+1 604-937-7532	
#P	225B Evergreen Dr.,Port Moody,BC,V3H 1S1
#L	49 17 N / 122 52 W
#R	Public access to newsfeed and mail for British Columbia
#R	Trailblazer on 604-939-4782,login: nuucp,password: nuucp
#R	2400/1200 on 604-939-4756
#R	Permission granted to send advertising to above address
#W	Stuart.Lynne@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca; Tue Aug 29 15:39:05 PDT 1989
#U	uunet ubc-cs

or for the other side:

#R	Anyone sending unsolicted advertising to the above address will
#R	be summarily flamed in the appropriate Usenet group with extremely
#R	vitriolic and inflammatory remarks. Do so at your own risk!

I suppose you could just leave out your address. What's the use of
putting it in if you're going to flame people for using it? Just leave in #L
line so we can put you in the postscript maps.(Hm, I wonder if Canada Post
would deliver to a latitude/longitute?)

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Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca uunet!van-bc!sl 604-937-7532(voice) 604-939-4768(fax)