Re: Advertisements/SPAM via List?

For the record, I wasn't complaining, just a failed attempt at humor ;)

I was also wondering where the influx of SPAM was coming from, out of
curiosity.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Maney" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: [LUNI-D] Advertisements/SPAM via List?


| On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:15:17AM -0500, gs-list wrote:
| > So, now I have to read SPAM sent to this list?
|
| Not only that, you also get, at no extra charge, whiners complaining about
| the rare piece of spam that sneaks in.  Such a deal just for you we have!
|
| > List Administrator:  How about turning on the MEMBERS-ONLY-POSTING
option at
| > http://www.luni.org/mailman/admin/luni-d/privacy ???
|
| Hmmm.  That might not be a bad idea for luni-d, Simon.  The arguments
about
| allowing novices ready access to the main list probably don't apply here.
| Then again, luni-d seems about as useful as a left-handed monkeywrench, so
| maybe the rational thing to do would be to proclaim it to have been ruined
| by spam and shut it down.  It's a tough call.
|
| > I didn't subscribe to this list to get UNLIMITED WEB CONFERENCING
| > announcements.
|
| Pity you haven't felt up to sharing something more interesting than this.
|
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| well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured,
| on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him
| to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart,
| and always to plead it successfully.  -- Anthony Trollope
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