What we need is "Black Flag" for the internet.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Thoen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 1:41 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: MI Spammer redux
>
> "Humphrey, Ben" wrote:
> >
> > Okay, I'm getting kind of miffed at all of the spamming lately. Is
> there
> > any way we can filter out these stupid advertisements? Although, hmmmm,
> > .13/min to NZ sounds pretty sweet! On second thought.... No really, I
> > think its a nuisance
>
> Stop spammers? I'm open to ideas...
>
> But one thing I suggest you NEVER do, is respond to them with a
> cc (that tells them they have a live one), and re-echo their
> annoying message all over the list again.
>
> I once lived in a student ghetto where for some reason I could
> never understand, we had cockroaches. I thought that if we killed
> a couple and stuck them on pins behind the stove it would serve
> as an example to the others. Nope. They just ate their dead and
> left the pins.
>
> A few weeks later, we had been experimenting with alternate
> realities and came up with another plan. One of my house mates
> was studying art, so we took out his box of paint and captured
> roaches in various rooms, and painted their back different colors
> depending on what room they had been found in. I think we hoped
> to start a roach race riot, and have them kill off each other. It
> didn't work, of course, but it made them more interesting.
>
> Spammers are just human cockroaches, and there's always more
> where the others came from. You can't pass laws against them, and
> you can't threaten them. They just don't care.
>
> Anyone want to volunteer to censor the list?
>
> - Bill Thoen
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