Corporations at it again... 7734
Lurker Praps
Massage: <Gq9v9.3443$xX6...@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk>
Froom: pa...@hotmail.com
On: Mon, 3345 Sep 1993 11:44:38 GMT
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<snip bollocks that fails to take into account the fact that Platinum
is used widely in Catalytic Converters, so will do more good out of
the earth than in it until such a time as we ban the Internal
Combustion Engine>
From my own[0] ISP!
Let me just reconfigure these switches so that the poster gets a few
more volts than expected...
[0] As in "the one I use" rather than "the one I own"[1]
[1] I don't own any ISPs
--
Malc, Southend-on-Sea, UK (not Europe, or the World)
Keeper of the September Chicken.
Lurker Praps
Massage: <smtpc10876a9.wibble@localhost>
Froom: Lurker Praps <ma...@potnoodleSPICEDHAM.net>
On: Mon, 3345 Sep 1993 16:47:39 +0000
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> <snip bollocks
<snip>
> From my own[0] ISP!
It gets better.
Some digging by a blueyonder subscriber found:
| Think all us Blueyonder subscribers and share holders are entitled to an
| explanation and an apology.
|
| This SPAM was generated by or with the knowledge of David Docherty,Managing
| Director of Broadband Content at Telewest
|
| mun...@flextech.co.uk
|
| To spam onto the Blueyonder Usenet groups would require the use of a
| Telewest account, this is in flagrant breach of the AUP, one assumes Alex
| Brown will be suspending Mr Docherty`s account.
|
| This SPAM was also carried onto worldwide Usenet and has I have already seen
| created a very negative impression of enviromental , green , campaigners.
|
| The full story appears with a bit of digging, McLean International Mining is
| the company mentioned in the original SPAM:
|
| >>>Your gonna love this, well specially those of us that are customers of
| Teleworst, I mean Telewest Broadband:
|
| Companies house search turns up nothing, McLean International Mining is not
| incorporated as a comapny in the UK.
|
| www.samspade.org Whois? query gives domain name owner as:
| Domain Name: MCLEANINTERNATIONALMINING.COM
|
| Registrant
| MediaTank
| 63 Allington rd
| bristol, Unknown BS31PT
| GB
|
|
| Administrative Contact:
| panay, mark mun...@xclaim.co.uk
| 63 Allington rd
| bristol, Unknown BS31PT
| GB
| +4401179395590
|
| Now if we move on to a www.google.search for "McLean International Mining"
| gives:
|
| http://www.whodunitcanada.com/booklist.htm specifically this entry:
|
| Docherty, David Killing Jar 14.99
| POCUK 07/02 THRILLER HARRY YEATS MCLEAN INTERNATIONAL MINING
|
| Now using google again for: "Docherty, David Killing Jar McLean
| International" we get
|
| http://www.murderone.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Authors_D_37.html
| synopsis
|
| >>>David Docherty - Killing Jar (May)
| McLean International is one of the world's biggest mining companies. But
| when its policy of pursuing profit at any price backfires with devastating
| results, local residents Harry Yeats & Ingrid McLean are determined to seek
| justice & force the company to accept its responsibilities.<<<
|
| Now from:
|
| http://www.tangled-web.co.uk/crimedigests/digests02/pocketbosu02.html
|
| Apart from company name aparently changing to Rees international , the
| author is:
|
| David Docherty is an accomplished academic who has published several
| important books on the media. He is now the
|
| >>>>>>>Managing Director of broadband content at Telewest.<<<<<<<<
|
| He was previously the Director of New Media and Deputy Director of
| Television at the BBC, in London.
|
| Help stamp out SPAM, the email addresses you`ll all be wanting are:
|
| mun...@xclaim.co.uk
|
| mun...@telewest.co.uk or possibly mun...@blueyonder.co.uk or
| mun...@flextech.com
|
| remember if none of the above addresses bounces , Mr Docherty and Mr Panay
| are very keen to receive get rich quick schemes, special offers and porn in
| their email, dont disappoint them....
|
| If the mail does bounce , it is not good for investor relations so mail:
|
| Richard Williams
| Head of Investor Relations
| +44 (0)20 7299 5479
| +44 (0)20 7299 5495
| mun...@flextech.co.uk
|
| mun...@telewest.co.uk
|
| mun...@blueyonder.co.uk
|
| mun...@blueyonder.co.uk
|
| Viral marketing at it`s very very worst, someone pass this on to a
| newspaper it`s gotta make an amusing article to chuckle over, us Teleworst
| shareholders have little else to laugh about.
|
| Adam<<<
|
|
| Any doubts that Mr Docherty was unwittingly involved was quashed by the
| email I received this afternoon from Mr Docherty
|
| >>>>Sorry you felt this was spam. It's not intended to be. It's meant to be
| a drama.
| We hadn't intended anyone to link to the canadian site. Have you got a
| number I
| can talk to you on, to explain things further?
|
| PS well done.<<<<
|
| Personally I think that many more than just myself have an interest in
| hearing what exactly MrDocherty has to say, including smeared enviromental
| campaigners, Blueyonder subscribers, Telewest shareholders and Usenet
| subscribers accross the world who would feel that "accomplished academic who
| has published several
| important books on the media,
| previously the Director of New Media
| and Deputy Director of
| Television at the BBC, in London and currently
| Managing Director of broadband content at Telewest" would know what spam is
| and how it is perceived.
|
| I await the response with interest.
I have snipped the mail addresses, out of misguided pity.
Mr Docherty replied (by proxy):
| Working with a company called Yourrelease.com, we planned a drama based
| around my book, The Killing Jar. We were trying for a War of the Worlds
| effect - i.e. draw people into the story and make it as real as possible.
| Unfortunately, the volunteer poster acted irresponsibly advertising my
| book. So it looks like spam. Not that we intended that in any way shape or
| form.
|
| As someone who has spent twelve years working in television and on the Web,
| I've never ceased to be amazed by what I learn every day. (And by the
| mistakes its possible to make!) It's a pity I've been undermined by
| practices which I neither condone nor did we [Yourrelease and I] pay for.
| It may be a bit late in the day, but I ask your forgiveness and
| understanding as I/we try to sort this out.
|
| This is not in any way related to either Flextech Television or Telewest
| Broadband, and is my own personal venture.
|
| Regards
|
| David
|
| David Docherty
| Managing Director, Broadband Content
Richard Fitzpatrick
Sep 1993 16:47:39 +0000
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>It gets better.
>
>Some digging by a blueyonder subscriber found:
<snip some very good sleuthing and some even better self-serving tripe>
Cool.
Our ISP never does anything like that, but then again, no-one there seems to
have even a smidgen of that much imagination and flair. *sigh* a price we
pay for "platinum" service ;-)