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

[jkirk]

even easier than contacting ISPs is putting the undesirable author on 
blocked list.
jo
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Hayes" <rhayes at unm.edu>
To: "Buddhist discussion forum" <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Off-list nusiance e-mails


> 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
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