Hello all,
I forward the following e-mail which I received to you all. Hope this
will lighten up your day. I apologize if this is inappropriate.
Dustin Fu
PostMaster
Academic Computing Services
University of Texas at Arlington, USA
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To Whom It May Concern:
Below follows an email message received from your network site,
evidently by [log in to unmask] who has taken it upon
themselves to interfere with my account's email traffic into
the internet.
This evidently was in regards to a post sent to several pertinent
mailing lists, including one I operate here at my own site,
regarding a roleplaying game project that has been discussed
for the past 6 moths. It was not 'spammed', it was posted to
legitimate mailing lists (including persons within my own list)
over the past few days.
I would like you to investigate whoever is running this 'cancelbot'
operation and deal with it. Our account is paid for thru a provider
and interference with legitimate email posting such of this
borders (and may have crossed) into the illegal.
If you support the actions of this personage, please let it be known
I have contacted my provider and if necessary will be contacting
my lawyer in this matter to deal with the situation if something
is not done.
Copy of message follows:
> From pioneer.ci.net!UTARLVM1.UTA.EDU!LISTSERV Sat, 10 Jun 1995 16:56:26 EDT
remote from ci-pioneer
> Received: from ci-pioneer by silvercaw.pn.com (UUPC/extended 1.12b) with
UUCP;
> Sat, 10 Jun 1995 16:56:26 EDT
> Received: from UTARLVM1.UTA.EDU (utarlvm1.uta.edu [129.107.1.6]) by
pioneer.ci.net (8.6.12) with SMTP
> id PAA00872 for <[log in to unmask]>; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 15:13:03 -0400
> Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]>
> Received: from UTARLVM1.UTA.EDU by UTARLVM1.UTA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2)
> with BSMTP id 9178; Sat, 10 Jun 95 14:13:18 CDT
> Received: from UTARLVM1.UTA.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@UTARLVM1) by
UTARLVM1.UTA.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 3319; Sat, 10 Jun 1995
14:13:17 -0500
> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 14:13:16 -0500
> From: "L-Soft list server at UTARLVM1 (1.8b)"
<[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Message ("The LISTSERV network has determined that you have...")
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> The LISTSERV network has determined that you have been posting an abnormally
> high amount of identical messages to multiple LISTSERV mailing lists. To
> ward against a possible spamming attempt, your posting privileges are being
> withdrawn for the next 48 hours, worldwide. While you will still be able to
> post to the mailing lists, your messages will be forwarded to the list
> owners for verification before they are distributed.
>
> A "spam" is an advertisement or other unsolicited material sent to large
> numbers of mailing lists with no consideration for whether or not the
> material is appropriate for the lists it is being sent to. A single "spam"
> can result in the delivery of millions of unwanted e-mail messages
> worldwide, costing the victims and service providers a total of several
> hundred thousand dollars. The cost to the spammer is usually under five
> dollars. To be effective, a counter-measure must neutralize the spam within
> the first five minutes. Consequently, there is no time for all the LISTSERV
> servers to compare notes with each other before acting, and some legitimate
> postings may be intercepted erroneously. Please accept our apologies if this
> is what happened to you.
--
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