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Re: junk mail

From: Zvi Har'El <rl>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 16:46:42 +0200 (IST)
To: jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il

On Tue Nov 19 14:36:48 1996, Garmt de Vries wrote about ``junk mail'':
>
> I think the best way to handle these lousy people who send us these
> nonsense is to simply ignore them. I don't know what their object is, but
> in my opinion they're just pathetic, bored losers.
> Don't change the address. People should be able to reach us, although they
> are not forum members. All Vernian interest is to be stimulated. And of
> course, those bombs should not be added to the archive.
> As long as there is not too much bomb mail: read it, delete it and forget
> it. Send no reaction, as these jerks will have no fun of their actions
> when they are ignored.
> By the way, the first bomb mail was a reply to Jana's letter about Michael
> Palin. So the bomber has received this mail one way or another. How? Is
> he/she a forum member?
>
> Let's not have trouble about this too long, it's not worth it.
>
> Garmt.

I agree to everything Garmt have said. As you all suggested, I'll just delete
the offending, unidentified message from the archive. Just for you information,
the sender has subscribed to the forum, but didn't specify a real name while
doing so, just an e-mail address. Therefore I didn't have the opportunity to
add him/her to the member's page (for that I need a name!). You can always get
the unedited subscriber list of a mailing list by sending listproc a message of
the form `review jvf'. I added a line to the instructions in
http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/JulesVerne/#jvf concerning the need to add a
real name. We want the subscribers to be our friends, not UFOs. We thus prefer
to call them members, not just subscribers!

Best,

Zvi.

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Dr. Zvi Har'El     mailto:rl~at~math.technion.ac.il     Department of Mathematics
+972-4-8294094(Phone)                Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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