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