From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 13:59:24 +0800
To: HipCrime <robert@precipice.v-site.net>
Subject: Re: who can count?
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On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, HipCrime wrote:

> > No, this b.s. is more like having someone put a dead skunk in my 
> > mailbox, with no return address, trying to prevent me from sending 
> > them 100 dead skunks as a return favor. And about as welcome.
> 100 dead skunks in exchange for ONE is exactly what this discussion
> is all about.  You CypherWIMPS just love over-kill.  EmailRobot sent
> ONE message to EACH address.  Are you guys so unskilled in arithmetic
> to understand the difference between 1 and 100?
> One message is NOT spam, 100 messages to a single box IS spamming.

     One mesage sent to 100 addresses, unsoliciated IS spam. One message 
sent to One address isn't. It IS still junk mail. 

     Overkill is a time honored concept for making sure the job is done. 

Petro, Christopher C.
petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow@smoke.suba.com