Klarinet Archive - Posting 000150.txt from 1995/09

From: David Gilman <dagilman@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: REPLIES TO GLENN MILLER QUESTION
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 13:59:01 -0400

At 08:19 AM 9/8/95 LCL, K. Leonard wrote:
>As a newcomer to klarinet I would like to thank everyone
>for the replies I recieved from my peanuts hucko question.
>I have also heard from some ex. military musicians if
>anymore are out there mail me. You can use my e-mail
>(in case the rest get bored with us reminiscing!)
>I am now a computer techie but over here in the uk, wev'e
>not heard the term "spamming" please explain?
>Is it like the amway message we got today?
>keith in the wet (at the moment UK)......
>
>
Keith,

"Spamming" is the practice of sending advertisements, or "junk mail," to a
listserv, newsgroup, etc. which are totally unrelated to the topic of
interest of that group. Some members of the list find it find it terribly
aggravating. I can understand this, because some of us have situations
where we pay extra for additional download time (phone connection, ...), or
have limited disk space. Some guy in Albuquerque, New Mexico keeps sending
us these long messages where he advertises all kinds of things, from atomic
bomb blueprints to instructions on how to spam a listserv: all for a fee, of
course.

Allow me to add my own name to the growing roster of techies who play
clarinet. I'm a programmer/analyst in southern California. Let me add once
again that this list is a great relief from the O.J. Simpson/Mark Fuhrman
nonsense that monopolizes the airwaves these days.

David Gilman
dagilman@-----.edu