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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: spam spam spam spam Date: 3 Aug 1996 20:09:08 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4u0bl4$qnk@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31FE7E37.6E7C@ucdavis.edu> <3200312C.712B@www.play-hookey.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> wrote: > > Hey anyone else get a e-mail from some krause@transnet.de about little > > plush-toy daemon? ... > Yeah, me, too. Sorry, this guy actually intended to handle shipping of the `genuine' BSD plushies (those i have been announcing a couple of months ago). Alas, the vendor of these (really nice! i've finally got mine now as well :) daemons didn't inform me about this change, and said Mr. Krause did a _really_ stupid job in annoucing it. Not only that his Usenet messages were really worthless crap, but Ollivier Roberts told me that Mr. Krause was finally even starting email spam... Sigh. I've sent him a big warning, and he promised to stop this. He has been sending a public apology to the affected newsgroups. So the sad part remains: by the poor choice of his methods, he apparently started an anti-promotion tour against our beloved daemon plushies. :-(( As a minor point in his defense, he is very unexperienced with the Usenet, and his ISP apparently didn't inform him about the Netiquette. Complain about this fact at transnet.de -- they should really inform their new users about what is considered `spam'. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)