1996-08-21 - Re: Spamming (Good or Bad?)

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From: “Ross Wright” <rwright@adnetsol.com>
To: Vipul Ved Prakash <rich@c2.org>
Message Hash: 40586ba0b9a65919f0b6699a9ca63efbfdd75ef3f7810e3226b9490381f8cdae
Message ID: <199608210340.UAA06334@adnetsol.adnetsol.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-08-21 05:46:44 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 13:46:44 +0800

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From: "Ross Wright" <rwright@adnetsol.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 13:46:44 +0800
To: Vipul Ved Prakash <rich@c2.org>
Subject: Re: Spamming (Good or Bad?)
Message-ID: <199608210340.UAA06334@adnetsol.adnetsol.com>
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On Or About 20 Aug 96, 18:09, Rich Graves wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Vipul Ved Prakash wrote:
> 
> > I don't know if there has been much discussion on the ethics of
> > spamming here? Is spamming free speech? 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> So is mailbombing the motherfucker, or more productively, virtually
> picketing his ISP until they kick him off for net abuse

That is the kind of self righteous crap that gives me the creeps!!!

> 
> Ethically? We don't talk ethics much here, but I'd say it's highly
> unethical to abuse a service paid for by the pooled resources of
> many. 

I pay for my net access.  I pay for my Sunday paper, it's full of ads 
too!!  Ethics???  Let's rat out on the EVIL spammers!!  Let's turn 
them into thier ISP!!!  That's a load of CRAP!!!!

Ross

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