Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.networks:4651 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.nt.kernel-mode:1688 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.ole:6150 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.mfc:14982 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.misc:3008 co ... From: Nikki Locke Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.mfc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.networks,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.nt.kernel-mode,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.ole,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.owl,c ... Subject: Re: MAKE EXTRA $$CASH$$ USING 5 ONE DOLLAR BILLS AND STAMPS!!! Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 16:23:21 +0000 Organization: Trumphurst Ltd. Lines: 24 Distribution: inet Message-ID: References: <31AC92C7 DOT 32FB AT wolfenet DOT com> Reply-To: nikki AT enterprise DOT net NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp17.enterprise.net To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp 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/"