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From: pierrer@pike.ee.mcgill.ca (Pierre Racz)
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Subject: Re: Caller ID problems
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.075621.6297@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Date: 1 Apr 91 07:56:21 GMT
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In article <1991Apr01.051101.3386@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>
>This might well mean the end of most phone solicitation.  I know of few
>who wouldn't say "good."  As much as you may hate junk mail, I believe
>that junk mail and junk e-mail are the proper ways to make an
>unsolicited solicitation.  I do not mind advertising that is there when
>I go to look through it at my convenience.   (And in the case of junk
>E-mail, my computer will sort the junk e-mail from my regular e-mail, so
>that I am not bothered by it when I read my important mail)
>
>I do mind advertising that regularly wakes me up or interrupts my dinner.

The way to fight junk email is to reply with the octal dump of
your favorit GNU executables.
-- 
Pierre Racz

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