On 22 Jun 2004 17:35:18 GMT, Dave Hinz vaguely
proposed a theory
.......and in reply I say!:

remove ns from my header address to reply via email

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 23:08:49 +0800, Old Nick wrote:

I did not NEED to snip the "offensive" (in the truest sense of the
word) part. It was missing. If you find the words offensive that's
your problem.....get off the net. **** happens here!

His point, which you are missing, is that that message didn't make
it to a whole lot of newsservers around the word. However, your response
did. In effect, you helped the spammer get their message out by
replying to it and leaving it in.

The content of the message, sans any of the usual url or attachment,
was the whole _point_ of my reply.

I'm sure that the spammer who doesn't visit this group will be
very impressed by your well-crafted response.

My "offenc(iv)e is against the intent of these posts, which for the
time being aim at sexual stuff, but cause viruses and worms on your
system.

Won't do anything to _my_ systems...

Since you had to _read_ the contents of my post to see the text, who's
the idiot? I read headers (it's called a "thinking ahead job" in Net
parlance)


It is? Never heard the term, ever, in the last dozen years.

errrrrrrrrr....it woz a joak.....

Whining about (and quoting) spam in a newsgroup doesn't stop 'em,
and quoting it helps 'em. So, why not report it through spamcop or
directly instead, which actually has a positive effect in stopping
them? Same effort, much different results.

I ****ing do. I DON'T reply to the many spams that come here, except
in this one case. I replied to this one. When I tried to get people to
DO somethong about it, last time, all I had was jerkoffs like you
having a mudsling and saying that it didn't matter. I was not
"whining", ****. I was trying to get some action, as best I knew how.

**** YOU ARSEHOLE. FILTER THAT!