Subject: Blackout's Box REAL AUDIO pranks are hilarious!

From: Blackout<[email-masked]>
Date: 21 Apr 1997 22:09:23 GMT

Ok, it may not go in this group but I have to get the word out somehow so 
I am letting you know here.

The funniest web site EVER has now officially opened using REAL AUDIO technology.

       Blackout's Box
WWW.BLACKOUT.COM

You will laugh, you will cry, you will pee on yourself... you will cough up your lunch 
from the intense amount of laughter you will be experiencing.

You MUST check out Blackout's Box at

http://www.blackout.com

Hear the most insane stuff you have ever heard, broadcast to your 
computer instantly over the net with REAL AUDIO 3.0 which you can DL 
for FREE if you don't have it already. This is not a commercial site or a business 
or any other type of advertisement.  It is just a very funny and very FREE site that I
want  Everyone to know about.  If you like Monty Python, Jerky Boys, Howard Stern,
Kids In The Hall, The State, Robin Williams, Who's Line Is It Anyway,
or anything like that - you will love Blackout's Box, there is nothing like it on the net.
Don't let the words 'prank call' scare you away.. this is no 12 year old fun, this is
intensely funny candid phone call radio drama that critics on and off the net are giving two thumbs up.

Blackout's Box simply kicks ASS, stop whatever work you are doing,
take a break, and check it out now! Life is short - LAUGH some.

Blackout's Box
Insanity On the Net
http://WWW.BLACKOUT.COM

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From: [email-masked] (David Richards)
Date: 22 Apr 1997 12:57:30 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Blackout <[email-masked]> spammed comp.mail.pine. Since I've been
labeled a 'rogue canceller' by certain parties, I'll try to resist the
impulse to do anything about this, and let you, the reader, take care of
the problem in your own way.

If you'd like to complain about this SPAM, which appeared in many other
newsgroups, here are the contact addresses for the originator and his ISP:

	[email-masked]
	[email-masked]
	[email-masked]
	[email-masked]

On the subject of e-mail, their mail servers seem to be all back in the
dark ages with Sendmail 8.7.5 (no hint of what version of Pine they run,
if any). The above addresses are the ones I've verified as working, or
the registered names from Internic.