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Re: Spamcop Blocks Facebook?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Thu Mar 4 18:30:34 2010

Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:30:07 -0600
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.1003041526210.28677-100000@citation2.av8.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 3/4/2010 2:35 PM, Dean Anderson wrote:

> When there are 100 million facebook organizations, perhaps your
> comparison will be appropriate.  But even then, only if your friends
> participate in all 100 million.  Getting the occasional facebook,
> linkedin, and plaxo invitation from your friends is not a DOS.  Just
> shows how you like to use inflamatory rhetoric.  The strain of the
> rhetoric is what exposes the scam, and your untoward willingness to go
> along with the scammers. (Oh wait, that is the NANOG trademark, isn't
> it?)

Nobody said it would be a DOS.

Some of us who know what we are talking about call it spam, since it
meets every criterion for the term.

I leave the NANOG trademark stuff to those of you who enjoy that.

I took the liberty of stripping all the crosspos.....I mean CC:s off.

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