Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mdcbbs!devsim.mdcbbs!jmi
From: jmi@devsim.mdcbbs.com (JM Ivler - MDC - Douglas Aircraft - Long Beach, CA)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Mass mail them off *this* newsgroup!
Message-ID: <567.25dec164@devsim.mdcbbs.com>
Date: 18 Feb 90 15:38:12 GMT
Organization: McDonnell Douglas M&E, Cypress CA
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Have you had enough? Are you sick of flames and dictionary wars? Do you want to 
"teach those jerks a lesson"? If you do (gosh, I'm tired of having to read 
things in this newsgroup that have nothing at all to do with the newsgroup) 
then I recommend that you extract and save the text below. Next time you read 
inane postings that don't belong in the newsgroup, mail the message below to 
the poster.

Personally, I have tried every method known to me to entice those that post 
non-newsgroup creation/modification/deletion messages here to move them, this 
is the last attempt I can think of. Mass junk mail. If all of us who use this 
group for what it was designed for start to mass mail the below message to the 
offenders, maybe they will have enough sense to go somewhere else. My bloody 
kill file is getting too damn big!

jmi  [fed up with improper posting of items (and cross-posting)]

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To <insert name of jerk here>

Thank you for posting your trash in NEWS.GROUPS. In case you were unaware, N.G. 
has a very specific purpose, and that is to be a location for the discussion 
and development of new newsgroups and modifications on existing newsgroups. The 
processes associated with the use of the newsgroup are clearly outlined and 
posted monthly. Try reading them.

In the future, if you desire to make an ass out of yourself in public, I would 
recommend that you also try posting your trash to COMP.UNIX (very wide 
distribution and retention), COMP.UNIX.WIZARDS (same here), REC.HUMOR (high 
readership level) and maybe even *.AQUARIA (just for the hell of it).

If you would like to discuss newsgroup creation, naming and things of that 
nature, please feel free to do so within this newsgroup, otherwise, blow your 
flames out of your... you get the meaning... don't you?

[This has been a form letter. If you are real lucky, you should only get of few 
of them. If you continue to mispost into the N.G newsgroup you will get many 
more. If you don't mind losing the diskspace, I'm sure the readers of the 
newsgroup will be happy to mail enough of these to you to paper your walls.]

Thank you for your kind consideration to the other netters.

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