On January 3, 1997 at 18:17 michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon) wrote:
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
providers including Sprint. The question in my mind is increasingly not what is in the source client's mind, but whether the traffic is violating Sprint's usage policies.
Yes it is. They claim that you can be removed from their mailing lists by replying with "NO MAIL" as the subject line, but it does not work. I just received another SPAM from them.
Once more, it's not spam, it is clearly an out of control process, it continues sending thousands and thousands of messages even when they are all refused by a site, for 48+ hours, and no administrator at the source site acknowledges the problem, there's no reason to even believe anyone is there (you get an answering machine, email is unanswered, etc.) That's a technical/operational problem (or has to be treated as such.) IQ-INTERNET.COM should be blocked until they indicate that they are credibly in control of their software. It is impossible for me to believe that they can be allowed to claim that they are doing something purposeful and within their rights when we can show that for 48 hours they have sent thousands of messages, several per minute, which have all been returned with errors. That's like believing a guy driving down a hill without brakes is merely in a rush. Look, even Spam-King Slaton, the best living argument for post-natal abortion, can have a bug forcing his site's connectivity to be shut down. It happens, and it's even more likely to happen at a site like his where he prefers unattended operation involving sending out, I assume, millions of email msgs automatically. Let's try hard to get our collective heads out of our collective asses, OK? We all know what a loop out of control is. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs@world.std.com | http://www.std.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD The World | Public Access Internet | Since 1989