The culprit will remain unnamed (hey, a new concept: ethics & courtesy on
IDM), but I couldn't resist using this as a perfect example of the recent
degeneration of the list. In response to one of several flagrantly
off-topic spams today, I wrote to the sender, "Please don't send crap like
that to the IDM list. We don't care." And so here was his/her response to
me:
quoted 15 lines -----Original Message-----> -----Original Message-----
> From: [deleted]
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 2:37 PM
> To: philip@askjeeves.com
> Subject: Re: spam
>
> Thank's for speaking for the whole class asshole, I just wanted to show
> hopefully like minded people, unlike your smug self, that there is some
> weird
> stuff out there and we should open our eyes and see how fuckin bizarre
> some
> things are, you probably didn't even bother to read the info, too busy
> writing your thesis on BOC. Well ya'know what I really hate using such
> simple expressive techniques, but I think this fits. FUCK YOU.
>
Apologies for raising the noise to signal ratio. I guess I just wanted to
share my disappointment.
Phil, member since 1995/6, and for what?
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