Subject: greetings

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 18:56:14 -0400 (EDT)

how do you send mail bombs

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 02:31:08 +0200 (MET DST)

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Due to negligence, on Prickle-Prickle, the 36th day of Discord in the 

  >how do you send mail bombs

Supposed your parents taught you to read, here's something from the
netiquette for you:

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LISTSERVS/MAILING LISTS/DISCUSSION GROUPS
                                      
[...]
                                       
Don't join a list

- -    just to post inflammatory messages - this upsets most system
     administrators and you could lose access to the net ("mail bombing").
                                       
- -    Keep your questions and comments relevant to the focus of the
     discussion group.
                                      
[...]
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     THE TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR COMPUTER ETHICS from the Computer
                     Ethics Institute

1.   Thou shalt not use a computer to harm other people.

2.   Thou shalt not interfere with other people's computer work.

[...]

9.   Thou shalt think about the social consequences of the program you
     write.
                                       
10.  Thou shalt use a computer in ways that show consideration and respect.
               ___________________________________

Get it, child?

BTW, has anyone ever tried contacting [email-masked], complaining about mails
like this? You'll get this (hehehe...)

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TO REPORT INCIDENTS OF INTERNET OR USENET ABUSE
If you're writing to report abuse of the USENET or Internet, please send
reports to [email-masked]. Please include complete copies of the abusive
article or e-mail, including all headers. This will facilitate our canceling
USENET articles; header information is used for internal user histories and
verifying the actual source of abuse.

If you have reported unsolicited mailings, especially the recent child
pornography mailings ([email-masked] and [email-masked]), we have closed
the accounts involved, and our legal department is taking action.
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Wish they treated childish [censored] with the same diligence as child
pornography :-|

Have a nice weekened.

- -- 
Robin S. Socha, Political Science Dept., Bonn University, Bonn
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