[dsn_klr650] digest number 437

[Ed Boyd]

Well said Brian. And I'm not trying to be a d*ckhead here, but for every spam we get, we get far more posts in the nature of "We've been spammed, do something!". So a simple spam post that sneaks its way through, propagates into many more spam-like posts. If the overall goal is to reduce unwanted emails, we could probably just let the spam come and go without multiple comment posts and let Arne deal with it as soon as he can. Oh sh*t, looks like I've posted a comment about spam too. I guess I'll have to restrain myself as well. Ed Duvall, WA '96 KLX 650 R '82 Katana 1000 > Message: 23 >    Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 13:54:13 -0400 >    From: "Shepard,Brian" > Subject: RE: $250 Line Of Credit > > Please don't take this the wrong way. I have been a Systems > Programmer/Administrator for almost 20 years and spam is > nothing new. Its > been going on way before the Internet as we know it now. I > used to deal with > it a lot way back in the Eighties (remember BitNet anyone?). > What puzzles me > is how enraged people get about spam now. Sometimes I wonder > if people get > angry because it's fashionable. Somebody sees what they think > is a computer > pro getting angry about spam so they get angry when they're really not > angry. They want people to think they're cool because they > get angry about > spam. There is this little known secret in the IT community. > Its called > DELETE. Its really cool. You just delete a piece of mail you > don't want to > read. >  > I'm more concerned about people "protecting me" from spam than people > spamming me. Think about it. This is a First Amendment issue. > I'd rather > choose for myself weather or not I want to read a piece of > mail. Now I know > that the intentions of the list management is sincere and I'm > not asking you > to NOT block spam. I just think people need to think more > about the issues. > Its very simple to delete. You can't delete something that's > not there. > FREEDOM! >  > -Brian Shepard >  A13