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From: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm)
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Subject: Re: what can we do about electronic "junkmail" (was Re: Portal...)
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Date: 26 Jul 88 01:47:43 GMT
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In article <2943@utastro.UUCP> werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes:
>within the last 3 days I received 2 messages by personal e-mail,
>which are clearly of the "junkmail" variety
>
>I sent back a CLEARLY worded reply, explaining my displeasure, but
>knowing how ineffective I have been discouraging telephone solicita-
>tion calls, I believe that there is a need to find a way to discourage
>"future" reoccurences ...

E-mail is better than real mail in that you can reply with 500 "STOP
SENDING ME JUNK MAIL" messages (easy to do with a script), or, worse
still, 50 copes of the rec.humor canonical lightbulb joke list.  Hmm,
on second thought, I guess that's cruel and unusual punishment.

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