Re: Try it yourselves

In <52orj7$qpf@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu> marcog@ctonline.it (marco greco) writes: >I've never seen so many chain mails posted in a single month! >I don't know. If so many are asking, many more must be willing to give! >I wonder how these chain mail posters would react to 70000 angry informixers all asking for a 1 dollar note? (I'd give it a try, if I weren't sure that the idiot's reply-to address is bouncy) What a lovely thought! Maybe we could get the other comp.database.* group involved and make it 700000 demands. Probably the only time I'll ever see eye-to-eye with an Oracle advocate :) >Seriously, there must be a way to stop all this. I'm pretty sure that the TOS does include something about illegal or annoying postings. (Mike, Billy?). >Maybe if more of us do complain to the offending site' postmaster (I like Con Woodall, have done it) one or two accounts will be cancelled. Not much, but it would be a start. >Anybody knows how to force ISP's to include a "no chain mails or you're kicked out of the internet" paragraph to the TOS, and to actually enforce it? Unfortunately, there are ISPs out there that just dont care about this kind of thing, and wont do anything about it. I've wondered though, if this is illegal, as many posters think, why can't the message be send to the a police email address (in the local country/area)? It should be a relatively simple matter to track the offending ISP and account, and ask a few impertinent questions that will put things right for a short time. Bryan Tonnet batonnet@zeta.org.au