yea...i think i agree with keith on this one...it seems we are standing on
the famous
"slippery slope" if we start using the spit list to hammer people that
practice bad
business...maybe a single short post or reference on good or bad to assist
others
but if we want to organize some sort of group effort to "drop the piano" on
someone..
we should probably do it off of the list...my .02...richard
----- Original Message -----
From: Keith R. Stewart <kstewart@wwdc.com>
To: Mark Milotay <mark.milotay@onthemark.bc.ca>; Fred Griffiths
<griffco@mail.cadvision.com>; <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: A Suitable Punishment: Was Burned on the net
>
> Mark Milotay wrote:
> >
> > Let's help Fred out on this. If he was to give us all the miscreants
> email
> > address, we could all forward on the various junk emails that we find
> > ourselves plagued with. This bombing of messages offering him XXX sites,
> > and make money quick opportunities might be just the form of irritation
> to
> > force him on to the straight and narrow. That is unless he turns out to
> be
> > like the fellow that offered to sell a friend of mine an MGA TC engine,
> but
> > turned out to be operating out of a Federal Pen at a payphone with a
copy
> > of Hemmings. I think that we owe it to maintaining the sanctity of the
> Net
> > to abuse him into good behaviour.
> >
> > - Mark
> >
> Sorry Mark, I have to disagree with you and the others who have already
> responded. While I do sympathize with Fred and wish there was something
> that we could do to help him out, wasting bandwidth and the internet
itself
> in such a frivolous way flys in the face of the etiquette of this fabulous
> resource we have at our disposal. A local visit, and other possible
> solutions might help Fred get his money or his goods, but wasting this
> resource that MJB has provided for us in such a manner is not the way to
go
> about it...IMHO :-) No flame intended, just another opinion :-)
>
> Keith
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