[buug] Do you like Penguins? :) (fwd)

[Christopher Sullivan]

This is a copy of the message I sent to our recent little "spammer."

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 11:49:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Christopher Sullivan <feedle at feedle.net>
To: carls at UNITEK.COM, Tiffany Turner <TiffanyT at Unitek.com>
Cc: abuse at pbi.net
Subject: Re: [buug] Do you like Penguins?  :)

The following message was transmitted to the buug at weak.org mailing list
today, 29 FEB.  This appears to be unsolicited commercial E-Mail (UCE, or
spam) delivered to our mailing list.  It is considered "bad form" to
submit such messages to a mailing list of any type, unless it is
specifically allowed.  We do not allow such messages.

Many in the BUUG community did not appreciate this.  It shows a lack of
respect for the Unix user community that we serve, and is a lousy way to
introduce your service to our community.  Had you E-Mailed our
administrative list, we would have been more than happy to have made an
announcement at one of our meetings, or have included information about
your site in a targetted mailing of our members (who specifically want to
get such messages).  However, E-mailing our general chatter list was not
appropriate.

Additionally, your upstream provider (Pacific Bell Internet) has specific
Terms of Service prohibiting the transmission of UCE in this fashion.
Based on the number of complaints I have already recieved from our
members, I am forwarding a copy of this complaint letter to them for
review.

We expect an apology to be E-Mailed to our admin list
(buug-admin at weak.org) posthaste, so we can forward this to our membership.
We also expect that you will refrain from using such tactics in the
future to promote your products.

Thank you for your time.

Christopher B. Sullivan
Co-Founder
Berkeley Unix Users Group (BUUG)

PS, and FYI: You also lost a lot of credibility by sending this message
using Microsoft Exchange.  Actually _USING_ Linux is a good start towards
gaining the support of our "community."  Otherwise, you're just playing
lip-service to it.

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Tiffany Turner wrote:

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