RE: Re: Re: Netiquette sillies

[Mike Sofen <msofen@pacbell.net>]

Spam is junk email.  When a website gets "spammed", it's been the target of
a bulk email campaign, where a company has created an email for marketing
(or other) purposes and then sends it to a billion email addresses,
especially those addresses where they know a lot of people will receive it,
like an email list server such as ridecamp.  Unfortunately, a lot of the
spam is pornographic or undesireable and unsuitable for the younger readers
on ridecamp (and very annoying for the rest of us).

Since spam doesn't really cost anything (there's no postage or labor cost),
it allows these spam generating companies to sit there day after day and
churn the stuff out.  When your internet service provider (ISP) sends an
email to all of its subscribers describing it's latest special offer, that's
also spam, but a more directed version of it - it's a "bulk mailing" to it
membership.

Mike Sofen

-----Original Message-----
From: Sandy Bolinger [mailto:bolinger@bigsky.net]
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 5:42 AM
To: Tracey; Sarah Ralston; ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject: RC: Re: Re: Netiquette sillies


it's that mystery meat made outof chopped up pig intestines and various road
kill---formed into little bricks and packaged in cute little cans that you
need a key to open...people thentake a paper thin slice of the stuff, put it
through their scanner and e-mail the result...ergo..SPAM.....
In other words...I don't know what it is either and have been too
embarrassed to ask!

----- Original Message -----
From: Tracey <tracey@tbt.co.za>
To: Sarah Ralston <ralston@AESOP.RUTGERS.EDU>; <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 1:19 AM
Subject: RC: Re: Netiquette sillies


> Okay, I have asked this on a number of sites, and had zero response.   And
> it's killing me.  WHAT IS SPAM!!!????????!!!!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sarah Ralston <ralston@AESOP.RUTGERS.EDU>
> To: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
> Date: Thursday, June 15, 2000 6:41 PM
> Subject: RC: Netiquette sillies
>
>
> >Though everyone has been on good behavior lately, I could resist this,
sent
> >to me by a non horsey friend. How many times have we all been "Silly" ;-)
> > Stolen from another group.
> >
> >==========================================
> >How to make yourself look silly on the net
> >
> >1. Reply to spam with something cute
> >
> >2. Get involved in a flame war
> >
> >3. Announce that you are leaving a group because you have been treated
> >   badly, then get into a posting fight with those who reply.
> >
> >4. Assume that the posters in a group are paid employees of some
> >   entity that exists for your convenience, so that if the replies
> >   are not exactly what you wanted, you can complain and everyone
> >   will quickly rush to give you the service you really wanted.
> >
> >5. Jump into a group and make the statement "I thought this group
> >   was about buying widgets," when you encounter an off topic thread.
> >
> >6. Not having read the group charter, assume that you can tell the
> >   regular posters what the rules are.
> >
> >7. Reply to a troll.
> >
> >8. Ask a question that is the specialty of the group and ask for
> >   email responses because you do not check the newsgroups very
> >   often.
> >
> >9. Post a message that consists of the word "test".  There is a
> >   newsgroup, alt.test, that is devoted to test messages.  In any
> >   other newsgroup, messages that say "test" are a magnet for
> >   silly responses.
> >
> >
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