[NTLUG:Discuss] laser printer toner advertising

[Kendall Clark]

>>>>> "John" == John R Hall <reeves at earthling.net> writes:

    John> I'm tempted to hike to their front door with a few other
    John> angry Linux geeks.  They're a ways north of where I live in
    John> Atlanta. At the very least I'll give them a call.

    John> Is anyone familiar with the legal issues of spamming? Are
    John> they breaking any specific laws with this email?

discuss at ntlug.org has spam filters; I'm not sure how this one got past 
them. These guys are *notorious* spammers however. I've reported them
many times and they keep coming back.

The tension between making this list usable and closing it to all spam
is not an easy one to resolve. Obviously making this list closed to
all but its subscribers shuts out much spam, but it also shuts out
people from posting from non-subscribed addresses. I'm not entirely
sure which one is the worse problem.

Since the message in question was apparently sent on November 5th, I'm 
not terribly inclined to do anything about it *now*.

Best,

Kendall
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