From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Tue May 24 23:00:00 1994
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From: ecec@quads.uchicago.edu (Eric Cabot)
Subject: Re: Response to advertising (no biology content)
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Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 12:44:22 GMT
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In article <2ru1d0$ont@hsdndev.harvard.edu> favis@RASCAL.MED.HARVARD.EDU writes:
>Greetings Netters,
>	I would like to encourage everyone to send their favorite Drosophila
>sequence to the individual responsible for posting the thigh cream ad. The 
>longer the sequence, the better. His address is:  keogh@anshar.shadow.net
>
>			Reyna Favis

I think that everybody should follow their own conscience on this one.

While I personally fired off a *most* obscene message to the offending
advertiser, I'd hesitate to publically encourage a mass mailbombing 
campaign which could potentially exacerbate the wasted bandwitdth aspect
of this unfortunate incident.

Eric Cabot


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