Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!natinst!uudell!pmafire!mica.inel.gov!gak From: gak@INEL.GOV (Bonzai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Easy money Summary: deluge of mail... Message-ID: <1991Mar22.020944.9440@inel.gov> Date: 22 Mar 91 02:09:44 GMT References: <248.27e77f8b@mwk.uucp> <1991Mar21.190536.537@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Sender: news@inel.gov Organization: Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho Lines: 47 ap@deimos.caltech.edu (Alain Picard) writes: >In article <248.27e77f8b@mwk.uucp>, tway@mwk.uucp (Bill Tway) writes... ...waste of bandwidth deleted. >>Welcome to the world of Mail Order! This little business is > >Is there anything we can do about this kind of abuse of the USENET ? > > Alain Picard The last time I saw this was in jobs.misc.jobs. But that time (and the one before and the one before....) it was from a student. That was easy. Send mail to the students postmaster and that (at least I heard) took care of it. ie: offensive idiot lost his account. This guy appears from the posting header to work for a private company. Maybe his postmaster cares, maybe not. Maybe he is the postmaster... no one knows. If there was some way to alert his employer to the waste of bandwidth he has caused on company time, maybe the employer would take some sort of action. Personally I sent him a copy of his own post with a rather pointed question at the top: "Are you a total idiot?" Maybe if everyone sends him this sort of mail he'll get the message. maybe it'll overflow somebody's disk... Greg Kelley gak@inel.gov ---Bubba like Bill Tway. Maybe Bubba visit Bill Tway...--- 8-) 8-) Press 'n' now. Don't wait. I warned you... ========== long legal disclaimer follows, press n to skip =========== Neither the United States Government or the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory or any of their employees, makes any warranty, whatsoever, implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility regarding any information, disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. No specific reference constitutes or implies endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory. The views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of the United States Government or the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes.