That "Green Card Lottery" thing

[fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)]

Remember that stupid "Green Card Lottery" message that went everywhere?
I thought everyone might find this interesting:

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Article: 6048 of alt.sources
From: roe2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Cave Newt)
Subject: Re: Green Card Lottery- Final One?

Darrell Fulmer (dwfulmer@delphi.com) wrote:

>: This "Green Card Lottery" lawyer seems to have posted to a large number
>: of newsgroups.

Over 5000 of them.

cfs@mathcs.emory.edu (Charles Stephens (guest -  exp 9/1/93)) writes:

>Yes there is several ways to deal with it.  All of them involve
>getting indirect.com to crash miserably.

DO NOT do this.  Internet Direct is simply a service provider (like
Netcom, a2i, Netsys, etc.), and they've already crashed several times
because of these assholes.  The lawyers' account has been shut down
(they're a husband-and-wife firm, btw).  They'd already received some
30000 (yes, 30 *thousand*) flames as of Wednesday evening.  All this
was reported in today's (Thursday's) San Jose Mercury News.

Follow-ups to alt.sources.d if you must...

Greg Roelofs
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Well, give the lawyers some credit: it wasn't a "My name is David Rhodes"
posting. :-)

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