Subject: Re: ABUSE: comp.mail.pine

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 01:21:25 -0500

Spamming is starting to seem less and less about making money and more
and more about pissing us all off... a pure act of antisocial behavior
on the part of spammers. I can just picture some toad-bodied oaf
sneering over his beer as he sprays spam indiscriminately over as many
unappreciative newsgroups as he can, cackling with juvenile pleasure at
the thought of his repetitious, off-topic taunts/pics pissing off
countless readers of newsgroups who must wade past his electronic
deposits of feces to find the few remaining golden nuggets of worthwhile
material. The only solution to such scoundrels and punks is
disconnection. We need to keep hammering at those host servers -
politely if possible, rudely if necessary - until they cleave the
spammers off of their networks! I noticed a brief decline in spam-arrhea
recently on the adult-pic newsgroups, but the forces of spam seem to
have recovered with a vengeance. The spammers who pop up are posting
sometimes six or seven ads back-to-back. I'd say that they are becoming
desperate, perhaps sensing a coming spam apocalypse that their online ad
operations will not survive. We must "take them out" one by one through
sheer volumes of protests to hosts and through shared detective work.
Through a process of elimination, we CAN eventually make spamming
unprofitable and overly-laborious for the culprits. I wonder if we are
not already seeing the dying vestiges of spamdom, as spam entrepreneurs
at the bottom of Internet pyramid marketing scams try in vain to recover
their initial expenses or to make that mythical $10,000-up profit by
scattering junk email and Usenet ads all over creation. Fight the
bastards! Make them lose their accounts! Go for it! We have nothing to
lose and EVERYTHING to gain!

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From: [email-masked] (From comp.mail.pine)
Date: 30 Dec 1996 03:52:12 GMT

Dear all,

Here is a sequence of events:

29 December 96
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6:20pm  Changed my finger name from "Peter" to "From comp.mail.pine".

6:30pm  Posted to comp.mail.pine as user "From comp.mail.pine".

7:30pm  I received a very long junk email from John Lester,
        [email-masked].  The letter was addressed to "From
        comp.mail.pine".

NOTE: I have not posted under the name "From comp.mail.pine" to any other
group except for comp.mail.pine.  Clearly, this asshole pulled my email
address off of this newsgroup.

If you post to comp.mail.pine, be prepared to be entered on John Lester's
junk email list.  The junk email that I received is appended to the
bottom of this post.

If you actually read the junk email, please note that his "software"
targets AOL and compuserve memberlists among others.  I encourage
everyone to write to this person and complain.  

Sincerely,
Peter

ps- Also note how shitty his program is.  My first name is "From"...

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From: [email-masked] (Peter)
Date: 30 Dec 1996 22:40:53 GMT

i contacted the ISP, pac bell, of the person who was taking names off of
comp.mail.pine for junk mail mailing lists.

within 24 hours, pac bell emailed me and told me that the person lost
their account.

i had no idea that pac bell was so responsive...they're OK in book.  :)

peter