Re[2]: Who Are The Good Guys?

[ptripp () equinox COM]

        Clueless is the operative word.  Bet whoever sent you that message 
dropped (or was thrown) out of law school and is that sophomoric stage of 
learning about computers and 'the net' where their 'Big Brother' complex shines 
through.


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Subject: Re: Who Are The Good Guys?
Author:  Geoff White <geoffw () precipice v-site net> at Internet-Gateway
Date:    5/14/97 3:40 PM


     
     
On Tue, 13 May 1997, David Stoddard wrote:
     
>  In the war against spam, its getting harder to figure out who
>  the good guys are.  Last weekend, we had an incident where a server 
>  called pure.fiber.net was relaying thousands of spam messages off
>  one of our mail servers.  While we have filters in place to block 
>  the obvious spammers (cyberpromo and others), we don't learn about 
>  new ones until they cross the line (or we get them from Paul's
>  site at http://www.vix.com/spam -- thanks Paul!).
     
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Indeed things are getting strange, look at this letter I got in my mailbox 
this morning...
     
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