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From: albrecht@megatest.com (Dave Albrecht)
Subject: Re: A Note from UNM anout MAKING MONEY
Message-ID: <C9JuwE.Dvw@megatest.com>
Organization: Megatest Corporation
References: <20svi3INNalk@lynx.unm.edu>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1993 18:32:42 GMT
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From article <20svi3INNalk@lynx.unm.edu>, by lnewby@lacerta.unm.edu (Lew Newby CIRT):
> I am the postmaster at UNM, I am well aware of the posting made by one of our
> users to your newsgroup and would like to request that you the readers of this
> group please refrain from mailing to the postmaster at any unm.edu machine as 
> this is beginning to cause undue harship upon me and several other members of 
> the staff here at UNM.
> 
This usually works much better if 'and the guilty party is being drawn and quartered'
is embedded somewhere in it :-).  Just 'hey, cut it out' might work but will tend
to be a little less effective with deflecting pissed off people.

David Albrecht