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Subject: Re: Annoying commercial messages!
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:26:42 +0100
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Dear all,

When I get around to it, I intend to look at a replacement for Britdisc,
something along the lines of a premium Egroups, Smartgroups or Listbot
account. Because we know there are people out there who want to be kept
informed but would prefer to miss out on the flame wars we are considering
splitting Britdisc into two separate lists. One would be purely for the
debating society and the other would be an announcement-only list.

Does this meet with everyone's approval?

Cheers

Ben Ravilious
Secretary
British Ultimate Federation

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Beaton <mike.beaton@integra-europe.co.uk>
To: <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
Sent: 18 September 2000 12:27
Subject: RE: Annoying commercial messages!


> I guess only one person needs to send this message; no one else has yet...
>
> I can confirm that more than one person is seeing annoying commercial
> messages sent via britdisc - I certainly get them too, about one a week;
> they are spam in my inbox, usually from _fairly_ reputable sounding
> companies, always with 'britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk' in the 'from', 'to' or
> 'cc' and no other sign that they should have been addressed to me.
>
> It would be a fair bet that Tim and me are not the only people seeing
them.
>
> For anyone who's planning to look into it: I don't have any copies to send
> as I just delete them straight away - I could forward any more that I see
to
> anybody who cares. I agree with Tim, they are currently below the
'seriously
> annoying' threshold.
>
> Mike (Sharks).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alastair Findlay [mailto:Alastair@ultimate.totalserve.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, 13 September 2000 20:46
> To: Tim Rogers; britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Annoying commercial messages!
>
>
> errrrrrr.   which annoying commercial messages would those be??????????
> I cant remember seeing any.
>
> ALi
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Rogers" <trogers@srv1.mech.ed.ac.uk>
> To: <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 2:39 PM
> Subject: Annoying commercial messages!
>
>
> > Does anyone know if it is possible to filter out commercial messages
> > from Britdisc?  I guess the problem is identifying those messages, so is
> > it possible to just make a convention, where say the word "ultimate"
> > appears in a signiture or somewhere in the message, and those messages
> > which have not got this word get filtered out?
> >
> > Incidently, I am not too bothered about it, and don't expect anyone to
> > spend any time doing it.  It would just be nice.
> >
> > Enough disclaimers.
> >
> > Tim
> > RSB
> >