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From: coolidge@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: warning: scumbags using usenet for pyramid schemes
Summary: Mail copies, too. Argh!
Message-ID: <1989Nov19.075757.23105@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 19 Nov 89 07:57:57 GMT
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In <667@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) writes:
Steve> i respectfully request that all sysadms expire the article that our
Steve> associate at VLSI (Harish) has posted in misc.misc,misc.invest,alt.fax.

People here got several copies of this pyramid scheme posting via
e-mail as well. What's worse, the sender used follow-the-path
routing to get it here. Our mailer choked passing the mail on
further, choked responding to the original mailer, and dumped
tons of bounced mail on our postmaster's head. This, of course,
caused complaints to be sent off to the sender's postmaster,
thereby making their life more complicated. Depending on the
organizational climate of the company involved, the guilty
party could be severely disciplined.

This is not a laughing matter. If you're thinking of using e-mail
to propagate one of these pyramid schemes, think again. Site admins
don't like it, postmasters don't like it, users don't like it,
and your institution probably doesn't like it (most universities
and corporations don't approve at all, while public access and
personal sites are on a site-by-site basis). Such things may also
violate various and sundry laws and regulations. Please don't mess
up everyone's day, including your own, by sending one of these out.

--John

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