Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!fozzie!stanley From: stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: BITFTP grief! Message-ID: Date: 24 May 91 18:30:28 GMT References: <1991May23.143540.3704@lsuc.on.ca> Organization: Mad Scientist Lines: 22 jim@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Mercer) writes: > > Does this fall under your definition of cooperation, Mr. Mercer? Mail > >bombing a site you don't like is your idea of consideration? Your actions > >speak louder than your words. > > Mr. Stanley forgets to mention, that the "mail bombs" were 3 of the USENET > informational postings from news.announce.newusers. Thank you for admitting that you did, indeed transfer files via mail, and that those files did not pertain to the discussion of mail. I hate to tell you, but those files had already arrived via the proper medium, and have been archived for new users here to read ever since this site opened. Your transferring them to me via mail was an abuse of this site's resources. Period. > i just figured he might read them and gain some perspective on the network(s) > he is using (directly or indirectly). And thank you for admitting that file transfer via mail is appropriate when YOU think it is appropriate but not when YOU don't think it is.