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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Solutions to USENET Map Abuse
Message-ID: <6275@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 24 Sep 89 21:49:29 GMT
References: <2049@avsd.UUCP>
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <2049@avsd.UUCP>, childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) writes:
> I just spoke with Geoff Goodfellow, and he disagrees that using the map
> data is inappropriate.

I agree with him. I'm no fan of hitchikers, but if you have to get your
nose bent out of shape you could have the taste to do it over something
a little more important than junk mail.

Now if they started feeding the phone numbers in map entries to
telemarketers...
-- 
Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-'
"That is not the Usenet tradition, but it's a solidly-entrenched            U
 delusion now." -- brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)