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From: lindberg@cs.chalmers.se (Gunnar Lindberg)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: what can we do about electronic "junkmail" (was Re: Portal...)
Summary: "junk-mail -> /dev/null"
Message-ID: <2682@fnatte.cs.chalmers.se>
Date: 26 Aug 88 09:12:16 GMT
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Organization: Dept. of CS, Chalmers, Sweden
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In various articles people have suggested various kinds of "punishment"
for "junk-mailers", e.g. sending them a hex-dump of your Lisp-system.
Unfortunately such a thing is exactly what the "junk-mailer" does -
sending somebody "junk-mail", ":-)" and ":-(".

In fact, I think silence is the best weapon, no reply, nothing, just
feed it to "/dev/null". Our "/dev/null" is unlimited :-).

	Gunnar Lindberg
	Department of Computer Science
	Chalmers University of Technology
	S-412 96 Gothenburg, SWEDEN
	lindberg@cs.chalmers.se
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