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  Re: Well this gives a new meaning to Spam...
 
I would be willing to spend upwards of $10 in stamps to send them a bunch of spam junk snail mail, since they were kind enough to give an actual street address! Anybody got any good ideas on a letter/sales pitch we could mail? I was thinking (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Well this gives a new meaning to Spam...
 
(...) A letter? Snail mail? Nah! That costs US money! If they think people love getting email so much, they must love it too! So everybody: get a hotmail account (they're free) that you'll and never use to actually check mail, and email them like (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Well this gives a new meaning to Spam...
 
David Eaton <wpieaton@wpi.edu> wrote in message news:FIq2Bq.I49@lugnet.com... (...) and (...) them! (...) but (...) Ha ha - I like that one. But I guess it would be worth setting up a hotmail account first just to send them something that looks (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Well this gives a new meaning to Spam...
 
(...) That's probably not a good response. It just adds to the problem, and irritates the admins of both your site and theirs. Instead, examine the headers carefully and e-mail the abuse addresses at all of the sites involved, including the headers (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Well this gives a new meaning to Spam...
 
(...) Oh, didn't mean for it to be taken seriously... more of those 'wouldn't it be funny if...' things... people getting their just desserts, etc. I don't really think it'd be particularly a nice thing to do.. I just would find it mildly amusing... (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)

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