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Meet thousands of idiots

From: scasterg@waltham.columbus.oh.us (Stuart Castergine)
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 08:11:25 -0500
Subject: Meet thousands of idiots
To: love-hounds@uunet.UU.NET
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Here's the message I sent back to those morons: :-)

Subject: Meet thousands of irate netters!
To: an18462@anon.penet.FI
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 9:03:08 EDT
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
Status: RO

>                          MAKE a NET connection NOW!
> 
>         Here's how YOU can be FLAME-BAIT, an amazing new
>         way to piss-off 100's of people from your area (or from any area
>         you want) for fun, the excitement of receiving angry letters
>         from strangers, or just plain MASOCHISM!
> 
>         On your first post you'll be able to make contact with people
>         who truly despise eloctronic junk mail, or who are looking for
>         some poor sod to dump on. You can try to respond to their
>         mail, or you can route all your incoming mail to /dev/null
>         for two weeks to avoid filling your disk with angry messages. 
>         If you keep your mail, you'll want to check it regularly
>         to read the special messages others will be leaving
>         for you.
> 
>                      CALL 1-900-FLAME-ME, ext DIP NOW!
> 
>         Don't miss your chance to participate in this amazing system!
>         People from all over the US & Canada are waiting to rag on YOU!
>         Special price, this week only YOUR SELF-RESPECT! 18 and over please.
>         
>      1-900-FLAME-ME, ext DIP  18+ yrs  Avalon Comm  $2/min  Ft Lauderdale
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> To find out more about the anon service, send mail to help@anon.penet.fi.
> Due to the double-blind, any mail replies to this message will be anonymized,
> and an anonymous id will be allocated automatically. You have been warned.
> Please report any problems, inappropriate use etc. to admin@anon.penet.fi.

I saw the message that someonehad all ready reported them to the
administrator, so I didn't bother with that -- no need to flood *his*
mailbox.

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