Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!spool.mu.edu!agate!agate!dpassage From: dpassage@soda.berkeley.edu (David G. Paschich) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: Who do I complain to about improper use? Message-ID: Date: 21 Jun 91 20:00:33 GMT References: <1991Jun19.165827.17112@menudo.uh.edu> <3784@happym.WA.COM> <1991Jun21.180803.24966@menudo.uh.edu> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Organization: cc Lines: 41 In-Reply-To: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu's message of 21 Jun 91 18: 08:03 GMT In article <1991Jun21.180803.24966@menudo.uh.edu>, jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend) writes: In article <3784@happym.WA.COM> Irving_Wolfe@happym.wa.com writes: >In <1991Jun19.165827.17112@menudo.uh.edu> jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend) writes: >>I've started to get junk email from vendors who are mailing to >>various user group list. > ^^^^ ^^^^^ >>Their from address doesn't seem to exist. > ^^^^^ ^^^^ >>Who do I complain to? This is an obviously blatant violation of NSF >>net work policies. Plus, it's pretty damn annoying. > ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ [...] >Second, you learn the language of the country you are visiting, >before posting vulgarities, grammatical errors, etc. I know this is a joke posting, but keep in mind that USNET is not the real world. In the real world, I have a BA Journalism and was editor-in-chief for a small newspaper. [more pointless bickering] -- J. Eric Townsend - jet@uh.edu - bitnet: jet@UHOU - vox: (713) 749-2126 Skate UNIX! (curb fault: skater dumped) PowerGlove mailing list: glove-list-request@karazm.math.uh.edu I think the last line of Mr. Townsend's .sig is pretty ironic. He's complaining about commercial postings to mailing lists while at the same time running a mailing list devoted to a single product. As far as I'm concerned, junk mail in your electronic mail box is pretty much like junk mail in your real mail box -- annoying as hell, likely to make me avoid the vendor, but not something I'd make illegal. -- David G. Paschich Open Computing Facility UC Berkeley dpassage@ocf.berkeley.edu "Can Spam increase sexual potency? `No!' say scientists!" -- Trygve Lode