From: jvmg9796@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (doc)
Subject: Re: Personal message for 'doc'
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 21:51:00 GMT
Keywords: Paul Tomblin is a fool. :)

First off, standard apologies to the net apply for this utter waste of
bandwidth.  But you see, Mr. Tomblin has a mail bounce set up for me, so
that whenever I send him mail, I get the following message:

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Hi there.  Your mail to Paul Tomblin has been intercepted by an
automatic reply mechanism.  This is something I've set up for people
like you, who I have no wish to communicate with.  Other than
depositing a byte count (so I know if you're trying to flood my modem)
in a file I scan occasionally, I will not see anything you mail me.
 
Thanks for trying, but don't bother playing again.
 
-- 
Paul Tomblin, screening his calls...
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Just as an aside, Paul, how exactly does one "flood a modem"?  I
think you may have meant your =mailbox=, hmmm?  

Anyway, in his first post, Paul said that he had no way of getting
in touch with me besides posting a message to a newsgroup.  Well,
considering that: 1. He knows my email address, and 2. HE has the mail
bounce set, not me (although I am considering setting one up for him now)
this is simply not true.  He could have very easily gotten in touch with
me via email.  If anything, =I= am the one who has no other way of
getting in touch with him because of the bounce he has on my mail. 
Maybe he has temporarily removed it, waiting for my apology in email.
I haven't bothered writing to him to find out.  More likely he simply
wanted from the start to waste bandwidth with this nonsense, and he thinks
I am going to publicly apologize for this so-called forgery.
(Hint: Paul, don't hold your breath).

He mentioned something about the Christian religion, but whatever it
was that he said didn't make any sense nor did it seem relevant to his
argument.  Unfortunately I can't call it up because the article has fallen
off the byte edge for being too old.  Then he claims I forged a test
message from him.  Again, he wasn't very clear, and certainly gave no
details.  

In his latest drivel,
pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin) babbles:

>Looks like I decided to actually wait until the deadline expired before doing
>anything.  I've now sent mail to postmaster and root at your site.  If that
>doesn't get the desired response, I'm going to phone your dean.  If that
>doesn't get the desired response, I'm going to bill your computer centre for
>the time and money I've spent on your stupid forgery.  As a consultant, I
>bill $150/hour.  I've spent at least 4 hours on this thing.  Add to that the
>costs of modem time from all that mail your forgery netted me, and I think I
>could make a case for billing you $700 plus collection costs.  As a
>consultant, I _do_ know how to collect from accounts that wont pay.  Try and
>get a car loan, mortgage or lease when you have a collection agency after
>your ass.

>Looks like you should have taken the easy way out, and apologized.  I'd
>still settle for that, but if I have to go any higher...

Don't do me any favors.  You have already made a fool of yourself in
front of all the readers of afu, as well as another group you cross-posted
your original article to (I think it was rec.humor??) and now to my sysadmins
too.  If you really insist on dragging this out any further, allow me to help 
you:

    name: Dean of Students, Office of the
    phone: (217) 333-0050 

    name: foertsch robert k
    phone: (217) 333-8033
    department: computing services office
    title: Unix systems administrator
    email to: bob-foertsch@uiuc.edu (bob@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu)

Time to put up or shut up, Paulie boy.  You claim I engaged in some sort
of unethical and/or illegal action.  I claim you're a fool and someone
has totally pulled the wool over your face, because I know I did no
such thing.  Let's see the evidence.
And once you realize what a STUPID mistake you've made, let's
see if you're man enough to apologize to me!  I doubt it....

P.S. Do they really charge $150 an hour for your services, when you can't
even successfully trace the origin of an email/usenet post?  Your poor
customers sure are getting ripped off.   Have a nice day, fool.  :)

P.P.S. If this nonsense doesn't stop soon I'm going to write to YOUR
postmaster and tell him that you are harrassing me.
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