This post caused me great damage! I laughed so hard reading it that I sprayed coffee all over my computer monitor! Granted, it is a message that must be understood in context.

Bret Harris
Flag-planter (with a text-only page)
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>>> Vincent Wright <[log in to unmask]> 06/15/98 10:34AM >>>
I like to read all of the email that comes to me and am put off by spam as
much as
the next person, but your letter prompts me to ask
"Do spammers do any more damage than what you've subjected us to?
"Are there things worse than spam?"
"Are there somethings that should not be sent to a list?"
ETC., ETC., ETC!

If ANYONE got value out of the post below, PLEASE let me know and I
will apologize for my tone.

Vincent Wright
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Joris Komen wrote:

> Greetings Afrik-ITes!
>
> Having dined on, amongst other things, spatchcock, not spitchcock, this
> weekend,
> and imbibed poetic quantities of Glen Morangie on my veranda out here on
> the desert's edge (oops! there goes another cheetah:-)), and being
> confronted by integrated markets on this esteemed, but listing, chez
> Cochrane, (and) at the risk of being coquin, I simply couldn't resist:-):
>
> Dear Diary,
> what a weekend it's been,
> woke up this morning;
> didn't know what happened to me!
>
> In the land of Cocagne,
> corbleu!
> where idle consultants  oft' dine on lasagne,
> a raging ague beset our intrepid Cochragne.
>
> A mysterious bug without refrain,
> gave him immense abdominal pain!
>
> Horreur!
> his pith helmet could not contain,
> the resulting flux from orifice and brain!
>
> Perhaps now he'll try
> to plug the hole
> in his fragile flag-planter's armour,
> by sticking to good ol'
> Kentucky fry
> in his cosy @ Washington arbour!
>
> Having thus cured my early morning bout of indigestion, I would like to
> move on to the more serious culinary topic of whack a mole spam:-) sensu
> Paul Vixie.
> I would be very grateful if someone could be perhaps (re-?) hash :-) some
> quick and effective ways of tracing/flushing spammers; I recall that there
> was some discussion on this list about spam a while ago, but I have
> misplaced the critical source material among all my other recipes...:-). I
> am, again, being inundated by considerable volumes of spam, and often fail
> to get any reaction from administrators of servers which appear to be
> hosting these lowlifes...any advice?
>
> Cheers
>
> Joris