Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter 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 Lines: 15 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)