Klarinet Archive - Posting 000279.txt from 1994/12

From: Cary Karp <ck@-----.SE>
Subj: Re: inappropriate advertising
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 06:12:39 -0500

On Wed, 14 Dec 1994, Tomas Andreason wrote:

> > From: LIONEL GOLDBERG <actuary@-----.COM>
> > Subject: Court Ordered Liquidation - Computer Memory - CPU's & Hdsk Drives
>
> The proper way to handle these advertisements is to send a polite letter
> of complaint to the sender and also to the postmaster of the senders site.
> Usually, the postmaster will warn the sender, and if the offense is
> repeated, the account will be terminated.
>
> If mr Goldberg has been a really bad boy, and sent his advertisement
> to all public forums that he could possibly get the address for,
> he will get thousands and thousands of complaints, which would serve him
> quite right.
>
> The address of the postmaster in this case is probably POSTMASTER@-----.COM

Goldberg did send the message to every list address he could get his hands
on. Although the "thousands and thousands of complaints" which are
certainly being addressed to him would serve him right, this response is
doing nothing other than turning life for the netcom.om administrators
into an absolute nightmare.

You can be quite sure that Goldbergs's account has already been shut down
and the only people who are seeing the complaints are the system
administrators, who most certainly don't need additional letters of
complaint directed towards them.

Cary <Karp@-----.se>