Yes, the spoofs may occasionally get out of hand. However, there may be a reason why - namely the unfortunate increase in clueless or uninformed postings. Personally, I would much rather have a good laugh from reading such a parody, then read about some crazy scheme or unresearched query. I would strongly object to banning any entire domain from this mailing list. Additionally, the practice of banning folks for "off-topic" posting seems rather unevenly applied - spam is, by definition, off-topic to NANOG, and yet long threads discuss it. Perhaps we should all look to our own houses, before we criticize others. - Daniel Golding On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Al Rowland wrote:
I'm sure it would be a trivial matter for merit to recover the full headers of the original and forward to abuse@hushmail.com for action against whomever is (quite poorly) impersonating Ms. Harris.
Hushmail's domains are registered to some offshore company, though they get connectivity from NetNation in Calgary, AB. They don't seem to respond to abuse reports. NetNation at least responds, but won't give any contact info out for real people at HushMail.
It would seem in this case the only action that is sure to work is to make a John Doe claim in a Canadian court, then file a subpoena against NetNation for Canadian business address of HushMail, and then subpoena HushMail's records.
In Susan's case she's a short drive from Windsor, Ontario, and the court filings could be done in small claims court so the fees wouldn't exceed a couple hundred dollars.
Since Hushmail offers free accounts the original offender can just sign up again under another anonymous ID and start the process all over. It would seem the offender has mocked not only myself and Susan, but the process for keeping unwanted posters off the list. At some point in the future it may become necessary to block whole domains from having posting privileges.
-Ralph