From: Brian Foster (blf at domain utvinternet.ie)
Date: Tue 23 Jul 2002 - 03:52:48 IST
| Date: [ recently ]
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| To: ilug at domain 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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