[Buddha-l] Off-list nusiance e-mails

[Richard Hayes]

On Friday 02 February 2007 17:35, Bshmr at aol.com wrote:

> Comrades,

Gadzooks! A fellow Marxist?

> Some of us have been receiving nuisance e-mail from a madman banned from
> buddha-l some time ago.

I had forgotten all about this fellow until I started getting messages from 
him. I made the mistake of responding to him. Even though I responded just to 
him and not reply-to-all, I see he sent his response to me to everyone on his 
list (thus revealing to everyone my carefully guarded secret of being an 
anti-Semitic Hitler-Stalinist Nazi Communist proponent of Islamic terrorism, 
posing as a Buddhist. Scheist! I had hoped no one would notice all these 
things about me!). He did the same in his response to Comrade Eric. 

> I am attempting to filter all of this off-list nonsense from 'Thom Fink' 
> and his various domains.
>
> If it continues, we should individually file complaints with our  ISPs and
> Internet Postoffices.

Good idea. A much better  solution than mine; I just redirect everything from 
Thom Fink to president at whitehouse.gov.

> Please do not 'Reply To All' or 'Reply To' our new-found tormentor 

Good advice. I aim to heed it from now on.

> Attempting to reason with such a fool is  foolish.

I'd like to think it is never foolish to try to reason with anyone, even a 
fellow fool. That's why I still send letters to politicians, even though I am 
confident my carefully crafted epistles will be directed unread to the 
nearest oubliette. Unfortunately, I think your dictum is probably right, but 
(like our beloved president) I continue to act foolishly no matter how much 
sage advice I receive from good friends.

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico