Hi Dave, That;s bad luck there. I read the ruby news group directly but I get the clean mail group forwarded to my e-mail in digest form. I think the same two spam letters slipped into their digest. You could probably show your ISP that this simultaneously happened to a lot of other groups. BTW, that's a great book of yours and Andrew Hunt. I saw it on the shelf of at the Kyobo Bookshop in Seoul Korea, where I am teaching English. Your book got me onto trying out Ruby. I am a slow stundent:-(, but I don't think I am as slow as the person who reported you to your ISP ;-) -- Regards David Milne http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~dmilne/ "Dave Thomas" <Dave / PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote in message news:m2y9ie6qq6.fsf / zip.local.thomases.com... > > I have received a warning from my ISP about posting a chain letter to > this newsgroup. I take this seriously, both because I despise chain > letters and because my livelihood depends on having a net connection. > > >From my ISPs perspective, I did post this letter: I received it from > the mailing list and forwarded it blindly through the gateway to the > newsgroup. > > To whoever decided to report this: I do not spam, nor I do not condone > spam. However, I also do not have the time manually to check every > posting that flows through the gateway. If this causes you a genuine > problem, please let me know privately, and I'll take the gateway down. > > > Dave > ______________________________________________________________________________ Posted Via Binaries.net = SPEED+RETENTION+COMPLETION = http://www.binaries.net