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From: dbigwood@umdars.umd.EDU (Doug Bigwood)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: The recent spate of advertisements on this list
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Date: 26 Jul 88 13:23:00 GMT
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Reply-To: Doug Bigwood <dbigwood@umdars.umd.edu>
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I get people trying to sell me things at my house, on the telephone, on the
street, at the malls, on TV, the radio, etc. I can't really do anything
about this (yet) except to be rude to the people who insist on invading
my privacy. However, I *REFUSE* to tolerate this type of behavior at work.
This includes these recent messages on this list in which the sender is
trying to sell a computer, a condo or whatever. 

To those people: What makes you think you have the right to waste other 
people's money (in the form of computer resources and the reader's time to 
read/dispense with the message) to make money for yourselves? [If I partook 
in name-calling I would do it here.]

For those of you who also feel this way and care to do something about I 
have the following suggestions.

1. Send a copy of the message back to the originator, preferably with a 
very nasty note as prefatory text. A large number of these should have a 
chilling effect.

2. Send your own solicitation to the originator. I like to quickly turn
down door-to-door salespersons and then make a counter offer; something 
like used pencils for $5 each.

3. Respond favorably to the ad. even though you have no intention of 
purchasing. This should tie them up awhile.

4. Send a very long text file to the originator - anything will do. This
has the effect of using up resources on originator's machine, but will also 
use up resources of computers along the path. For this reason it is 
suggested that this only be used if the advertiser is close by.

Let's nip this in the bud. Thanks for listening.

Doug Bigwood
Lockheed-EMSCO
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