Re: You'll never know until you try.

In article <3276474B.12A3@lmco.com>, Jim Melton <jim.melton@lmco.com> wrote: >4) Learn how do delete messages that tick you off. The best way to deal > with a pest is to ignore him. Especially in the case of SPAM, since > the pest is already long gone. This is certainly wrong. The Internet is built on the assumption that no one will use up an inordinate amount of the resources of the system without providing content. Spammers exploit this assumption, and use up network resources for their own financial gain. We must move as strongly and quickly as possible against all spammers we see, particularly on the technical newsgroups. Please do write to the postmasters of the guilty parties. And if you are interested in getting more deeply into this, check out the news.admin newsgroup hierarchy -- it is undergoing some reorganization but is the best resource for finding out about fighting abuse of the Net. --Jamie. "It was on one of my journeys between the EDSAC room and jamie@cs.sfu.ca the punching equipment [c. 1950] that... the realization came over me with full force that a good part of the remainder of my life was going to be spent in finding errors in my own programs." -- Maurice V. Wilkes