Re: What's up with the spam? CPUNK

2000-06-30 Thread Tom Vogt
Greg Newby wrote: > Someone mentioned a few days ago that just blocking mail > from [EMAIL PROTECTED] was a good idea to cut down on the > poop. If the "real" cypherpunks is no longer @toad.com, > it seems wise to, perhaps, remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from > the subscriber list to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's up with the spam?

2000-06-30 Thread Tim May
At 5:48 PM + 6/29/00, Vinnie Chassot wrote: >and more importantly, is someone actually doing something about it? Did I >just volunteer myself for screaming-insane-anti-spam duty? > >And hmm...do people actually talk here anymore, or has this gone the way >of the alt.* heierarchy? > >Vinnie I

Re: What's up with the spam?

2000-06-30 Thread David Marshall
Vinnie Chassot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Tim May wrote: > > > I've replied to some of the spam with threats that I will track them > > down and kill them. > > Heh. I was thinking more of contacting upstreams and seeing if they will > yank the signal. I doubt that they

Re: Re[2]: What's up with the spam? CPUNKS

2000-06-30 Thread David Marshall
Vladimir Vul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello David, > > Friday, June 30, 2000, 8:15:52 AM, you wrote: > > >> > I've replied to some of the spam with threats that I will track > >> them > down and kill them. > >> > >> Heh. I was thinking more of contacting upstreams and seeing if they wil

Oakland Gungrabbing Gimmick

2000-06-30 Thread Anonymous Sender
Computers offered if weapons are turned in Associated Press OAKLAND -- City officials have a deal for owners of legal and illegal guns alike: turn in your weapon, get a free computer. The exchange is good for the first 200 or so people who show up at the Oakland Coliseum between 8 a.m. and 2 p.

Re[2]: What's up with the spam? CPUNKS

2000-06-30 Thread Vladimir Vul
Hello David, Friday, June 30, 2000, 8:15:52 AM, you wrote: >> > I've replied to some of the spam with threats that I will track >> them > down and kill them. >> >> Heh. I was thinking more of contacting upstreams and seeing if they will >> yank the signal. DM> I doubt that they care either.

Re: [Freenet-chat] Illegal

2000-06-30 Thread David T-G
Marcel -- ...and then Marcel Popescu said... % Can the police legally force you to commit something illegal? [Well, maybe Nope. % not illegal - to break a contract, and thus expose yourself to a lawsuit.] I Yep. That's the difference; if you create a contract that is legally unenforcable bec

Re: Oracle's Smear Campaign Against The Independent Institute

2000-06-30 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "Alan Olsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Should a company be able to put code into their products to sabatoge > their competitors?" Gee... I don't know. In THEIR products? Wow... [Yes, of course, duh!] > "Should they be able to threaten higher prices for products that only

Re: [Freenet-chat] Illegal

2000-06-30 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "David T-G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I will say that the police can certainly demand whatever they want, just as you or I can, regardless of whether or not the demand is legal, and they will often get it (unlike the typical results for you or I, in my experience!). [Mark] Ac