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Re: junk mail

From: Gilles ROGER-NAUDIN <jangada~at~club-internet.fr>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 23:00:06 +0200
To: jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il

Zvi Har'El wrote:
>
> 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.

Don't worry about this kind of people, simply, ignore them and don't
change the forum, we need new subscrivers.

Best regards to everybody,

Gilles.
Received on Wed 20 Nov 1996 - 00:02:54 IST

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