From: Mike Holden <rockbox_at_mikeholden.uklinux.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:48:06 -0000 (GMT)

David McIntyre said:
> Where does it stop? Should we ban all freely available email providers?
> Hotmail? Yahoo? Excite?
> Should be ban all lame ISPs?
> Maybe we should ban all euros. Nothing good ever comes out of Europe.
> Can't understand them anyway. And South America. Damned Canadians with
> their beady eyes and flapping heads don't belong on our mailing list
> either.
> Ban the Russians. All they ever do is send spam. And the Asians. Damned
> software pirates, the lot of them.
> Yep. The only good internet user is an American with a college accound
> or their personal domain that they administer.
> Does this sound ridiculous? Did it upset someone? GOOD! Maybe I made my
> point! Banning AOL users is the most discriminatory thing I've ever
> heard. I have no love for AOL and their dumbing-down of the Internet,
> but neither do I tolerate intolerance in any of its guises.
> If you're so smart, why don't you set up a mail filter to automatically
> delete any mail that ever traversed AOL's link. Then you'd never have
> seen this unsub request and never have gotten so bent out of shape over
> it. (I do, except for my mailing lists).

Maybe we should just ban all subscribers who don't have a sense of humour
(or should that be humor, for those intellectually challenged Merkins?)

;-)

-- 
Mike Holden
Rockbox page: http://www.mikeholden.org/~rockbox

Received on 2003-10-28