Re: Off Topic Posts (Was: Re: American Airlines Removes Pillows From MD-80 Flights)

From: Joel M. Eichen (joeleichen_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/18/04 

Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:08:21 -0500

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:48:24 -0700, "Clark W. Griswold, Jr."
<spamtrap100@comcast.net> wrote:

>"Peter Duniho" <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> wrote:
>
>>What I want to know is who to complain to about this idiot who keeps
>>cross-posting random off-topic news articles.
>>
>>I don't see anything useful in the message headers to point me in the right
>>direction. Looks like "alt.net", but with so little identifying information
>>in the headers, can they really do anything about it?
>
>
>What these clowns count on is that most people don't look at the Newsgroups line
>and just reply blindly. Given that, you have to ignore most of the followup
>posts. A surprising number of the original posts do come from reputable NSPs and
>if you mail the complete post with headers to them, they will eventually kill
>the account.

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