How to document threats from pro or anti spam terrorists?

Tue Feb 24 05:37:44 UTC 1998

I got almost a dozen emails regarding this subject. Fine.

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On Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 07:07:19PM -1000, NetSurfer wrote:
> 
> I took a look at your main web pages and didn't see any reference to an
> Acceptable Use Policy etc.  What is your policy on spamming from your net
> or hosting spammers?  (Since you brought up the subject :-)
> 
> On Sat, 21 Feb 1998 dirk at power.net wrote:
> 
> > From: dirk at power.net
> > To: nanog at merit.edu
> > Cc: legal at power.net
> > Subject: How to document threats from pro or anti spam terrorists?
> > X-mailer: Mutt 0.84e
> > 
> > Is there any consensus on how to document threats from anti-spam
> > or pro-spam terrorists in a legally usefull format? 
> > 
> > This message is colored by just having received threats from one of
> > the more violent anti-spammers. Apparently a client of one of our ISP
> > clients sent out an advertisement for CPUs' or something like that.
> > 
> > I went to the anti-spammer home page. Ouch. Its full about how
> > guns are cool and usefull. What the benefits of *really* sharp knives
> > are. Scary. Can't decide whether its a total psycho or just trying
> > (with success) to project that image.
> > 
> > As much as I personnally wish for SPAM to just go away, it has to
> > be up to the legal system to sort that out.
> > 
> > We don't do dialup, so I guess we haven't seen much of this yet. 
> > There really are two terrorist groups here. Spammers and 
> > nti-Spammers.
> > 
> > Dirk
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> -
> James D. Wilson
> netsurf at sersol.com
> 