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>The recent message from SORGI raises a few questions: >WHAT are they doing on our list? >WHY are they advertising themselves (surely not allowed on the Net)? >WHO (if anyone, which I doubt) requested information from them, and in >what form? >No doubt Amelia Carr was going to ask these (or perhaps other) >questions, and I apologise if she did: but if so I didn't receive them. >Perhaps SORGI can be shooed away? As they say over in the Usenet newsgroups "we been spammed." Spamming--posting indiscriminately to unrelated groups--is very bad manners even on the commercial Internet. I would suggest, rather than clogging up REED-L with complaints about this unwanted and unrequested message, that anyone as annoyed by this sort of thing as I am forward a copy with a politely worded complaint to the postmaster at SORGI's Internet provider. Although the provider may ignore your complaint, it is more often the case that the provider will pass on a sharply worded warning to SORGI. If there have been previous complaints, SORGI may even lose their account. If you've deleted your copy of the message, you can still send a (politely worded) complaint to: [log in to unmask] Yrs, John Morris University of Alberta