From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!mahler
Newsgroups: net.general
Title: Traffic Consideration - (nf)
Article-I.D.: pur-ee.404
Posted: Tue Jul 13 19:43:22 1982
Received: Thu Jul 15 04:52:44 1982

#N:pur-ee:5400001:000:421
pur-ee!mahler    Jul  5 10:17:00 1982

It certainly seems inappropiate (in my humble opinion) to
generate automatic return mail on the network.  Sites which
dislike receiving net.jokes.* or net.test should refuse
acceptance of the traffic, NOT generate MORE traffic for the
already loaded and costly network.  Just think what happens
if someone builds a return letter to your return letter generator!
Stephen J. Mahler, Network Services Mgr.
Purdue University