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Subject: Re: Commercial Posts - What To Do?
From: "Bill Casti, CQA (Moderator)" <help @ quality . org>
Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 01:22:03 -0400 (EDT)
To: "Lawrence S Rosenberg, Esq." <lawrose @ valleylaw . com>
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <2.2.32.19960501050332.00697218@valleylaw.com>


No. Why don't you check with them and let us all know??
Bill


On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, Lawrence S Rosenberg, Esq. wrote:

> At 03:41 AM 5/1/96 +0000, Jonathon Blake wrote:
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, Kynn Bartlett wrote:
> >
> >> This is a really bad idea.  Why?  Because I've found that AOL, in particular,
> >> are _very_ good about yanking accounts immediately.  The AOL admins who
> >
> >	My milage varies considerably.  
> >
> >> What more could you possibly want them to do?  Have you ever dealt with
> >> abuse@aol.com?  I get the feeling that you probably have not.
> >
> >	When I've sent complaints to abuse@aol.com, it is has bounced 
> >	back to me as
> >	#1:	user unknown
> >	#2:	I'm not a subscriber to the mailing list / abuse
> >	#3:	mailbox full
> >
> >
> >	So i send complaints to all of the following at aol.
> >	root
> >	postmaster
> >	toslnet1
> >	toslnet2
> >	support
> >	the spammer 
> >
> >	Generally speaking, that seems to have the desired effect.
> >	The spammer loses his account.  
> >
> >        xan
> >
> >        jonathon
> >        grafolog@netcom.com
> 
>         One More -
>         Since the latest spams are all about *this* "company," has anyone
> inquired of the U.S. Postal Service as to whether this can be handled as a
> misuse of a post office box?
> 
>         
>                                          Magazine Club Inquiry Center
>                                          Att. FREE Catalogue-by-email Dept.
>                                          PO Box 990
>                                          Staten Island NY  10312-0990
> 
>         This is where the fax-impaired are supposed to send the form in the
> spam via U.S. Postal Mail.  We have all kinds of rules on Postal Mail, and
> I'm not looking for any more rules on the Internet, but ... perhaps this can
> be brought to the attention of the snail mail authorities.  IMO, this *is*
> misuse of a post office box ... taxpayer's money and all that, and I don't
> for one minute think that this company is some innocent being caught up in
> this spam.  I think a fish stinks from the head down and I think this
> company is paying for professional spamming, which, right now, just happens
> to be easiest to accomplish from AOL.
> 
>         I'm in California.  I think those of us in or near Staten Island,
> NYC, could get this going with a simple phone call.  I would have to
> actually write a postal letter and send it same day air.  :-)
> 
>         Gawd ... has anyone bothered to read this specimen, I mean all of
> it?  It's what *I* call obscene, or at least it makes me sick.  
> 
> Viz.
> ..............................
> "Please do not email me as I am just a happy customer and a *busy* student.  I
> don't have time to even complete my thesis in time, let alone run my
> part-time software business!  Please fill out the above form and carefully
> follow the intructions above to get it to them via fax or smail."
> ..............................
> 
>         If you have read it you know it gets even better, but to invoke the
> honor of being a student as a ruse to leave the sending account alone is ...
> well, to me it's below the belt.  (Particularly when sending to this busy
> student results in a 550 "User Unknown" error. :-)
> 
>         So, anyone in the NYC area feel this is worth a local call to the
> U.S. Postal authorities or should us lawyer types start writing letters from
> California?  ;)
> 
>         Onward, I hope everyone is having a good week and I apologize for
> quoting from so much of the spam.  I think everyone here probably has it
> memorized by now ... but, just in case anyone joined the party late.
> 
> My Very Best,
> Lawrence S Rosenberg, Esq.
> For the Rosenberg Law Offices &
> ValleyLaw - ValleyLaw-Digest
> Queued to send - From Los Angeles, California, USA  [PDT]
> April 30, 1996
> 10:02 pm
> 
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> 


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