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From: ebinger@num2.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Werner Ebinger)
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Subject: Re: Darek M - a warning (PLEASE READ)
Keywords: advertising
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Date: 12 Nov 90 10:47:38 GMT
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In article <2416@wn1.sci.kun.nl> ge@wn3.sci.kun.nl (Ge' Weijers) writes:
>techno@lime.in-berlin.de (Frank Dahnke) writes:
>
>]Today I received an email of 50K despite the plea in my .sig that no
>]mail be sent to me from outside Germany. The contents ? A short notice
...
>]Germany is free) and thus Dareks misbehavior COST ME $12 !!!
>
>It's like giving someone your credit card with the
>4-digit PIN code. You are even more to blame for hiding

I think it's just like publishing your Fax -number and receiving
illegal advertising. You don't have to pay the sender's phone bill,
but your own fax paper. This is one of the reasons why advertising
via Fax is illegal.

>inside a LOUD signature which everyone would skip. Put it at the
>TOP of each message.

I think the signature is the right place, but big signatures are bad.

>--
>Ge' Weijers                                    Internet/UUCP: ge@cs.kun.nl
>Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science,   (uunet.uu.net!cs.kun.nl!ge)
>University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1         
>6525 ED Nijmegen, the Netherlands              tel. +3180652483 (UTC-2)

University members (like me) my have the imagination, that email is free.
But there are people who have to pay for mail (outgoing and incoming), if
they want email access. We should respect this.

Werner Ebinger
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Werner Ebinger                      ebinger@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
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