[plug] OT: Perth SPAM

[Simon Scott]

	How does some company sending me unsolicited emails differ from me
sending them unsolicited faxes?

	They are both unwanted and waste the receiver's resources?

	Id enjoy going to court for this one, even if you lost youd win
because youd set a precedent that any good lawyer could use against email
spammers. A small price to pay, I say.

	And I disagree. Spam is not petty. My mother does not want to know
how to make her dick 4 inches longer, or watch Sarah Michelle Geller giving
head. It is offensive for most, and especially for the older generation,
completely innappropriate.

	What gets me is the constant flood of email at work that I get
offering low Mortgage rates, if I lived in America. The fact that I do not
live in America (and never will) seems to be of little importance to these
people. 

	So, unless you want to watch a Sarah Michelle Geller porno while
making your dick longer, sitting in your house paid for by an American
Mortgage company, you shouldnt have to receive this crap.I believe there
should be laws protecting people like my mother, especially if they receive
blatantly offensive material.






	From:	Beau Kuiper <kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au> on 20/07/2001 12:24
PM
	Please respond to plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
	To:	plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
	cc:	 

	Subject:	Re: [plug] OT: Perth SPAM

	On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Bret Busby wrote:

	> On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Alex Polglaze wrote:
	> > Haven't you got anything better to do, for god's sake.
	> >
	> > Get a life!
	> >
	> > Alex
	>
	> I see.
	>
	> So, when people on the mailing list post queries (original
message, asking what
	> could be done, and, subsequent messages), people on the mailing
list are not
	> supposed to respond?
	>
	> So, that is your version of a mailing list - do not respond to
queries?
	>
	> Each to his own, I suppose, and, may you get all the lack of
response to
	> queries, that you would impose on others.
	>
	> A non-violent response was sought, and, one was suggested. It is
called
	> problem-solving.
	>
	> If you believe that problems should not be solved, then, that
	> is your problem.
	>
	>

	Well, your suggestion was over the top. Even going into crimial
damage if
	you were to actually carry it out.

	Don't think that just because you have caller id blocked (other side
can't
	see your phone number), that teltra will not reveal the information
for a
	criminal investigation.

	I don't think Alex was implying that responding to messages and
requests
	is a bad thing, just that wasting time just to waste someone elses
time
	and money over something as petty as SPAM is pretty pathetic

	Beau Kuiper
	kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au







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