Douglas Winship <[log in to unmask]> passed on this little gem: > >Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 22:14:59 EDT >From: Strangelove Press <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: How to Advertise on the Internet > >o How to gather mail addresses of Internet users for direct marketing Shall we subtitle this "Earn their enmity with unsolicited mass mailings"? >o Understanding the culture of the Internet The subtitle here should be "and then violate it with unrequested email advertisements." >o How to create your own animated graphics for electronic > mail business acards Geez, are they talking about multimedia? NeXTMail? MIME? Uuencoded GIFs? This will be even better for the advertiser; not only will they deliver stuff that most folks cannot yet read, but they'll anger admins by filling /usr/mail (or spool space, for you IBM folks) with useless tripe in multiple copies. Quite frankly, I'm going to answer unrequested email adverts with something like this: Your recent unsolicited electronic mail advertisement is, in my opinion, an inappropriate use of the mail facility; I find such things rude, annoying and almost unethical. Therefore, any future mailings from your address to any user in my domain will be returned to you. In addition, I will be doing everything in my power to ensure that your firm recieves no business whatsoever from this site. In addition, I will publicize this response in the hope that other sites will also take a dim view of your firm and its products. If I have any business relationship with your firm at this time, I shall endeavor to terminate it imme- diately. One quick patch of my sendmail configuration, and they'll be flooding themselves; I have zero tolerance for this kind of nonsense. I wonder how many lists are going to be adding "no advertisements" to their charter and/or adding moderators... --Wes ps> I'll be dispatching a copy of these comments to [log in to unmask], although I doubt they will do any good.