In a message dated 95-09-09 23:58:40 EDT, Aaron Bradley
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
 
>Posted to OUTDOR-L and the sender.
>
>If there's one thing that will make me hit the keyboard it's finding
>unsolicited advertising in my mailbox.  If I ever find an advertising
>message from I. Group Systems Inc. in my mailbox again I'll write a
>mail script that brings the igroupsystems.com server to its knees.
>
>I suggest that each similarly-assaulted OUTDOR-L subscriber send an
>appropriately outraged and vitriolic message to [log in to unmask]
>letting them know how they feel about this serious breach of
>netiquette.
 
Right on, Aaron!  Maybe these dirtballs don't get it yet, "it" being
netiquette.
 
But I suspect from parsing their message that they get it all too well, so
they did their premise, warm-up, solution, close, and cool-down, all in one
message.  They will settle for 1% or 0.1% response, and we will never hear
from them again under the I. Group Systems name.
 
If we Outdor-L subscribers bite, they will be back under other names for
other one-call closes, and/or Outdor-L will be on the suckers list for all of
their fellow slime buckets.
 
So, what can we do, other than wimp-out and be victims?
 
1) Don't, under any circumstances whatever, buy their product/service.
 
2) Send the poster <[log in to unmask]> a message, telling him/her/it
what you think.  (Or Forward this message with a few words of agreement, if
you wish.)
 
(You may find that <[log in to unmask]>, which Aaron mentioned in his
message, is an auto-reply mailer, which will not read your message, and will
instead just return a canned message from the offender.  Better to send your
complaint to the poster, who was Jhari <[log in to unmask]>.)
 
3) Send a message to Outdor-L's "owner," Jim Cocks
<[log in to unmask]>, asking Jim to set the Outdor-L's list
software to reject postings from the domain @IGROUPSYSTEMS.COM.  (As noted
above, this is of little direct consequence, but some list owners trade
trouble makers' addresses -- a kind of shit list, if you will, where these
sorry pieces of scat belong.)
 
4) Send a message to LSTOWN-L <[log in to unmask]>, a discussion list
for list owners, asking all of them to set their their lists' software to
reject the sleeze's postings.
 
     *     *     *     *     *
 
If anyone knows how to request of the Internet governing people that I. Group
Systems' Internet node <@IGROUPSYSTEMS.COM> be removed from the routing
table, making them Internet non-persons, please post it here as action item 5
(and 6 and 7 ..., if need be).
 
Do something NOW, before you forget it. The Internet we get will be the one
we (implicitly or explicitly) ask for.
 
--Jeff