On 3 Jul 2000, at 15:15, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:

> I figured folks on this list would appreciate this.
> 
> We were spammed today. Laurie wandered out onto the porch this 
> morning to find a flyer on the front porch, for a "power management" 
> seminar. They leafletted the entire neighborhood....
> ...What caught me was how typical 
> the subject matter was to the kind of on-line spam we yell at all the 
> time...

Indeed, although an important difference to keep in mind is that that 
kind of spam dealt with in seconds with a keystroke or two [or even 
automatically in most cases], whereas the hardcopy stuff we've learned to 
just live with has to be handled, sorted, and carted to the dump [no 
recycling for that sort of stuff in this area] and actually wastes 
*real*time*...

  /Bernie\

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Bernie Cosell                     Fantasy Farm Fibers
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