> "M.C. Bezemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi! > > > > Just in case you didn't yet notice, it seems that the spam mail > > on the debian-user list is coming from only ONE sender. > > Well, all the spam that came from aol. > > I notice that no one seems at all upset about the obviously commercial > spam (even to me, a non-chinese speaker [1]) sent from netvigator.com by > way of hkstar.com, in chinese. (this seems especially odd as that > spammer very obviously tried to hide his/her identity) Does spam only > offend if it is legible by the recipient? Is the real offense in spam > not the wasting of disk space (for truly, these aol spams are really > very short things, individually) but the forcing of commercial > thoughts into the heads of the recipient.
No, it's just that I assumed it was someone trying to get help in chinese ;-). I am sure most other people skipped the message on the same grounds. The offense of spam is that if you don't stop it in time, your bandwidth and hd space *will* be wasted. The latest stats show that 80% ( i might be a little off on this) of usenet traffic is spam and spam cancels. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation.... Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
