>On Mon, 23 May 1994 16:20:02 CDT James Ford said: >>On Mon, 23 May 1994 17:14:05 EDT you said: >>>>After seeing a piece on the CBS news on Sunday the Green card lottery folks >>>>are planning to form a company that will do nothing but post ads to what the >>>>describe as "every internet group". ... >>>>I am planning to SERVE ... OFF and or filter that domain when I know who >>>>to watch for... >>It will be interesting to see how they handle hundreds (if not thousands) >>of irritated sysadms (or users) changing their sendmail.cf file or incoming >>filters to dump core files to their site everytime they receive mail from >>them......... > >My guess would be they would handle it with legal action of some sort. >That may be where they see their profits really coming from. Might >be a good idea for list owners and administrators to discuss appropriate >responses with their management and legal department before finalizing >the defense to the company's unsolicited advertizing. I think that after all their speaking about how there are no legal controls on internet, they'd have a real hard time winning the case. As for me, I would be thrilled if the net figures out a way to systematically crash Pericles.COM (accidentally, of course) and render it completely inoperative. -Nate