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From: jessea@dynasys.UUCP ( Sysadmin.)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: UUCP Maps Used For Commerce
Message-ID: <6@dynasys.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 89 20:12:51 GMT
References: <2048@avsd.UUCP> <1446@redsox.bsw.com>
Reply-To: jessea@.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher - Sysadmin.)
Organization: Dynasys:  Consulting for the Future.
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In article <1446@redsox.bsw.com> campbell@redsox.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes:
>In article <2048@avsd.UUCP> childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) writes:
>
>-Well, it's finally happened, thanks to all the amoral money-grubbers and
>-wannabees who are just out for a fast buck or are too lazy to gather their
>
>Oh, you poor thing!  A mean nasty person sent you a LETTER?  You must be
>absolutely devastated!  What a HEARTLESS, CRUEL, WICKED thing for them
>LETTERS to perfectly innocent geeks like you?
>
>-to ball them out in public at the top of my voice. Or maybe I'll give it to
>    ^^^^
>Larry Campbell                          The Boston Software Works, Inc.
>campbell@bsw.com                        120 Fulton Street
>wjh12!redsox!campbell                   Boston, MA 02146

This was uncalled for.  I don't know about you, but I'm sick and tired of
my mailbox being full of junk I neither want nor requested.  The problem with
all of this is not that people are getting junk mail, but rather that they
are using a medium which has traditionally untainted by politics, greed,
avarice, and commercial ventures.  Usenet is not a business and should not
be run as one, nor should information gained about individuals be used without
their consent.  If this is not nipped in the bud, I can foresee the day when
we cannot use .sig files for fear of having forty billion sales people bugging
the hell out of us.  I for one am perfectly willing to participate in helping
with a lawsuit against these greedy a@#$#$&*!!  It's about time we stood up
for what we want instead of bowing to the whims of the almighty business
community and dollar.
 

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        Jesse W. Asher
        Dynasys               (901) 382-1705  
        6196-1 Macon Rd., Suite 200, Memphis, TN  38134  
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