Re: Global Alert For All: Jesus is Coming Soon

pauls@easter.euro.csg.mot.com (Paul Smith) writes: >On Jan 17, 6:58pm, Clarence L. Thomas IV wrote: >> Subject: Global Alert For All: Jesus is Coming Soon >> >> RELIGIOUS STUFF DELETED >> > >Well, I for one object _VERY_ strongly to this stuff being distributed on the >net. >Walt, I would like to lodge an objection. Without using too much bandwidth I >would propose that a reminder is sent to Clarence re the purpose of this >newsgroup and any further transgressions are filtered out ? > >Any other suggestions ? > Not that you can tell from the attribution, but Clarence is in .edu - one way to deal with this sort of abuse is to email a message to postmaster@wherever.edu and complain, suggesting that the offending newbie needs some gentle instruction in netiquette - how it's not polite to post huge articles on inappropriate subject matter to technical newsgroups. Also deluge said newbie with a copy of his article and some chastisement. If he gets megabytes of mail the message'll be pretty clear... -- -John Hardin Systems Manager, SPW johnh@splat.com