OT Re: [Nottingham] Re: Tux Games mail is still unread

[Martin]

Derek Huskisson wrote:
> On Monday 24 May 2004 14:15, Mike Cardwell wrote:
>>On Sat, 22 May 2004, Derek Huskisson wrote:
[...]
>>>It's hardly British, I know, to complain but have you any other
[...]
>>>I don't want to register with an organisation just to say that I don't
[...]
>>They've simply put a system in place to stop getting spam. If you don't
[...]
>  Hi there 
> 		It might be OT as much as beer, perl or designer tee-shirts but consider 
> this:

!?

Completely OT-T!

I too had one challenge response from the Tux systems many months ago. 
However, I read the message. I was slightly erked by the extra reading 
and clicks and the small time required, but sympathetic to the problem 
of unwanted spam targeting that Tux Games must get.

Can't better the apt reply from Michael himself.


> 		Tux say they are getting too much spam (I've got sympathy there)

Good. So why the Off-Target tirade?

> 	How much is too much ? -- they don't say 
[...]

Perhaps you should campaign against the spam & virus junk mail 
exacerbating practices of the various anti MS-virus software companies 
and Microsoft themselves.


> <trawl>
> 		Is Bill Gates on the right track when he says people should pay for email
> </trawl>

Oh yes, very much so. However, note that the Microsoft idea is that you 
are forced to use their (software) patented protocols and pay your tithe 
to Microsoft...


To be continued over a beer or two on Wed 2004/06/02 (;-))

There's also a good talk on about bash-ing things in general...


All welcome,

Cheers,
Martin

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Martin Lomas
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