Problem is that there's always new people comming on the net or
the mailing list each day that don't have a clue about all this,
so the ignore thing won't work.  Until they regulate the internate
and you get a permit to surf (permit as in you got technical course
on how to send email, stop asking "stupid questions" (South park quote:
"Remember, there's no stupid questions, just stupid people :)), and
they get ethic courses... we won't stop it.

And since we don't want those permit or anything close to that...




myke predko wrote:
>
> Martin Green wrote:
> >     Very funny!! You know, I deleted the original message so fast I didn't
> >     even see the hilarious 'red flag' about sending an 'address
> >     verification' such as a phone bill...
>
> It's really hilarious.  We got dinged by this one by a guy who showed up
> with a Consumer's Gas uniform and look alike badge who *had* a photocopy of
> our bill and asked to sign to "keep getting the same great service that
> we're used to from Consumer's Gas".
>
> We found out about it because of a letter Consumer's Gas sent.  Now we're
> stuck with Fred's Gas and Litter Box Cleaning Service and there's nothing we
> can do about it for five years.
>
> Hopefully, we won't have a problem...
>
> Hey folks, here's a good suggestion to eliminating the SPAM problem on the
> PICList - IGNORE IT!
>
> I count 24 replies to the original note asking to "remove", how to sabotage
> the spammer and how to protect ourselves.
>
> I would argue that the spam is only 4% of the problem, we're 96% (I'm
> including myself in this because I've actually sent two notes on this one
> now telling people to just ignore the original note).
>
> myke
>
> "In this life we all get an equal share of ice.  The rich get it in the
> summer, the poor get it in the winter." - Bat Masterson's last words

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