spammers getting arrested (YES)

[Roush]

From jsb...@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU Thu Dec 26 14:39:03 1996
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 14:38:05 CST (UTC -06:00)
From: "Mark S. Roush (aka The Fractional Dimensional n-Space Finite
Attractor)" <jsb...@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.alt.alt.alt.alt
Subject: Re: spammers getting arrested?

On Thu, 26 Dec 1996 suc...@statom.com wrote:

> Roush wrote:
> >
> > I just send them all this:
> >
> > "By US Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), a computer/modem/printer meets the
> > ------------[SNIP]------------
>
> Hello Roush:
>
> I just don't understand what the problem could be. I receive lots of
> E-mail and yes, some of it was from a spammer. If I don't want to read
> the mail I just click-on DELETE. It's the same thing you do when you
> get mail that you didn't ask for via the U.S. Post Office. Best of
> health to you!
>

and so Mark responds:

How long have you been using the Internet, E-mail and Usenet?

I got in late, five years ago back when it was still DARPA and NSF
working with hundreds of thousands of college educators and system
administrators and the American business and engineering community on
very often an unpaid for-the-sake-of-research-with-donated-equipment
positions requiring large amounts of unpaid, donated microcode and
technological innovation to create what we are calling and internet.

Back then, no one cared about making a buck. We laughed and supported
each other. We informed, discussed and entertained like a family around
the fireplace because the only reward we could get was to BE stimulated
and entertained.

Ever been in the SCI.MED line of usenet groups? They are discussing
cancer research in there. Do you think your voice is as worthy a use of
information technology and ideas when you use it to make a buck?

All, I mean ALL savvy users who remember the old days agree with me. Ask
them, or did you bother to?

Mark S. Roush -- Speaking for the Rest of the Internet and the newsgroup
alt5 and the indigenous population of Lawrence, Kansas.

--
Mark -- Another fighter in the War on Spam.