That's a good answer!



At 02:34 PM 4/5/99 +0100, you wrote:
>I challenged the implicit racism in Davidy's posts to stop them:
>
>Recent, and entirely reputable, DNA analysis has apparently proven that an
>ethnic group from Zimbabwe and South Africa are of Hebrew descent (the
>group's priestly caste shares the same unique genetic marker as most
>male Cohens).  I simply cited this to Davidy and then asked him if he had
>plans to carry out the same genetic testing on "Celtic" populations.  I
>haven't heard from him since.  Apparently from his perspective, Africans
>don't make as convincing a lost tribe as fair-haired white Celts...
>
>Alasdair Brooks
>
>
>On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Wayne Neighbors wrote:
>
>> Dear Geoff (and others),
>>
>> I received these for many months at different email addresses so my
>> suspicion was that (Yair) had a bulk email program and was obtaining
>> (purchasing?) email address collections for his software program.
>>
>> Apparently just replying that you don't want what he sends does not work.
>>
>> I also tried questioning the accuracy of certain statements and got back
>> much longer messages!
>>
>> I tried time after time to stop this before I did what seems to have worked
>> for me.
>>
>> I finally tried sending a short "reply" with the statement that I was a
>> Christian, and though I respected his right to think whatever (Yair) might
>> wish, it was unsolicited, I had no interest, and he was not about to
convert
>> me.
>>
>> Then the email ceased on my end for all my email accounts.  That was over a
>> month ago.
>>
>> Not replying is the same as replying in protest - they keep coming.
>>
>> I suggest you try what I finally tried.
>>
>> 1) reply directly to the email address in Israel, 2) state the firmness of
>> your convictions (short statement) if you are religions, and  3) tell
(Yair)
>> that you intend to just delete all his future messages without reading
them.
>>
>> By the way, the server he is on can handle but so many messages.  I had to
>> repeat this several times before I ceased receiving the server reply that
>> the it was overloaded.
>>
>> It worked for me.  Glad to learn I am not the only person that has been on
>> his "list."
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Wayne Neighbors, Ph.D.
>> President, Vee Ring Ltd
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>> http://anthro.org/
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