[ILUG] [OT, rant] e-mail "disclaimers"

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: [ recently ]
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  | To: ilug at linux.ie
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  |                     [ ... four (4) line question ... ]
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  | E-mail Disclaimer:  [ ... twenty-three (23) lines of FUD B*S* ... ]
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<rant>
 am I the only one who thinks posting >20 lines of complete rubbish
 threatening mayhem if the preceding e-mail content was read by its
 recipients to a high-traffic, internationally-distributed, public,
 archived list is inane?

 yes, I am well aware the poster quite possibly has no control over
 the quite probably automatically-added garbage.

 these "disclaimers" --- and they are nothing of the sort, they are
 pure unadulterated FUD intended to terrify the innocent recipients
 effectively spammed by error or carelessness --- obviously yank my
 chain.  the above case is the most extreme recent example, being a
 context:crap ratio of about 1:5.

 I pay for my downloads and am as incensed by this sort of spamming
 as I am by the UCE / porn / Nigerian fraud / whatevers (rants like
 this?) spam.  I'd still be very annoyed even if I wasn't paying.

 I'm all in favor of taking the people who write, install, maintain
 or fail to delete this sort of malicious software and, and .... oh
 I dunno, what's the dejour favored method of terminating spammers?
 come back Caveman Og, we need you!
</rant>
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