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>>>>> "Gert" == Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> writes:

    Gert> Hi, <rant>

    Gert> I just want to point out once again (people are so
    Gert> forgetful, it seems) that it *REALLY* pisses me off if I try
    Gert> to help people fix their modem problems and they sabotage
    Gert> their e-mail addresses ON PURPOSE to make it hard for me to
    Gert> help them.

    Gert> How important do you think you are?  You get the software
    Gert> for free, you want support for free, and you think it's ok
    Gert> that you make the task of helping even harder, just to slow
    Gert> down a few spammers (won't help anyway)???

    Gert> Fight spam, don't fight the Good People still working in the
    Gert> 'net.

    Gert> </rant>

    Gert> I'm really, really annoyed.

Preach it, Brother!  I had a "discussion" with a friend of mine the
other day about spamming.  Seems he had just bought this wonderful
bulk email program that was going to be so effective for advertising
his business.  I tried to tell him it would go over like the
proverbial lead baloon, but he said he had researched it, and it was
legal, and everything he had read said how effective and inexpensive
it was.  

The guys selling these spam generators are the ones at fault.  They
prey on the newbies, and then the newbies spam us, mostly out of
ignorance, because they believed the sales pitch of the spam tool.  I
think we ought to figure out a way to launch denial of service attacks 
on the spam tool vendors.  Legally, of course.  :-)

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