Ahmad Risk wrote:
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> On 02/10/98 09:32:57, Patrick Pearson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >Jesus Christ Ahmad, lighten up a bit. The guy's doing his best to set the
> >system up and doesn't need stuff like this any more than the poor student
> >from Austria who got threatenened with a libel/slander suit recently. Not all
> >of us have your expertise in using cyberspace and it would do no harm to
> >tolerate us beginners who only do our best.
>
> I thought I was being really light ;-) Go on, the list has been so
> timid lately, time we had some sparklers ;-)
>
> <lecture> :-) :-)
>
> I am the first to support and encourage new users of the medium. That
> does not mean that every Dick, Tom and Harriet can include my name in a
> distribution list running into hundreds without asking my permission first!
> This is a basic right to privacy that I'll defend till I die.
>
> This is done for the interest of new users as much as old hacks and
> safeguards our future in an Internet that values the privacy of the
> individual. One of the reasons gp-uk is successful is that we all do
> that. GP-UK is remakably free of spamming. Long may it live :-)
>
> 'epulse' is a commercial business operation. It should be run as such
> observing the strictest code of conduct available.
>
> These are the very basics of the 'communities-in-silicon' that many of
> us have been arguing and fighting for. If the pros can't get quality
> stamped all over their existence, what hope does the consumer have?
>
> I did include few smileys in the post though! I just didn't want to be
> a target for future 'your very special offer this month from eulse
> is...' ;-)
>
> Not a very comforable precdent when all the other comics join in.
>
> </lecture>
>
> Ahmad
>
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I have to agree if we start getting comercials I'm off I don't mind
occasional inividual ones like the guy with the dictionary but not
companies
Yomi
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