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From:	Timothy David Mann <tdmann AT teleport DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: MAKE EXTRA $$CASH$$ USING 5 ONE DOLLAR BILLS AND STAMPS!!!
Date:	Thu, 06 Jun 1996 23:45:55 -0700
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While Nikki has a much more polite and mature way to handle these idiots, I still say 
flood their mailboxes with their post and maybe another large file that takes awhile to 
download.



Nikki Locke wrote:
> 
> What to do about stupid, off-topic posts to your favourite newsgroup.
> 
> The first thing NOT to do is to respond to the newsgroup.
> 
> I repeat, do NOT respond to the newsgroup. The original message was bad
> enough - starting an irrelevant thread (like this one :-) just makes matters
> worse.
> 
> The best thing to do is to MAIL a reply to the perpetrator, complaining
> about their post. Personally, I always make it reasonably polite, and quite
> short.
> 
> If anyone does this more than once (or if I'm feeling _particularly_
> annoyed), I also mail their postmaster, including the HEADER of the
> offending post (and just enough of the body to indicate the kind of post it
> is), asking them _very_politely_ if they can do something about it.
> 
> This is usually not necessary, as the postmaster has already noticed their
> mail machine grinding to a halt processing a million messages of complaint
> from all over the Net, and terminated the perpetrator's account :-)
> 
> --
> Nikki Locke "http://homepages.enterprise.net/nikki/"

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