Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.networks:4680 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.nt.kernel-mode:1732 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.ole:6197 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.mfc:15176 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.misc:3038 co ... From: Timothy David Mann 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: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 23:45:55 -0700 Organization: Joshua Tree Lines: 31 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <31B7D023.5CF9@teleport.com> References: <31AC92C7 DOT 32FB AT wolfenet DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-salem1-55.teleport.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp 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/"