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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