Customer of your remailer flooding newsgroup with porno (fwd)
Karen Mercedes
from Dizum.com, the owner of the automated remailer and news service our
pornographer is using:
The relevant information (for us) is about the Mail2News gateway operated
by Dizum.com (a Dutch firm, it appears) - specifically the answer to
Question #8 in their FAQ about the Mail2News gateway. Also most relevant
is item "J" at the end of the abridged autoreply message - i.e., how to
contact a HUMAN at Dizum.com to deal with abuse cases (the contact address
is ab...@zedz.net).
I am not terribly hopeful that Dizum.com will do anything about "A.
Melon", but I suggest we all follow the recommended procedures to notify a
human being. Maybe if enough of us ask to have A. Melon's news posting
capabilities suspended, Dizum.com will give in.
Karen Mercedes
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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 00:34:00 +0100 (CET)
From: ab...@zedz.net
To: dal...@radix.net
Subject: Re: Customer of your remailer flooding newsgroup with porno
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The Dizum Usenet F.A.Q. v1.03 (03-August-2000)
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numerous off-topic or inappropriate postings does not constitute a
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ML/NJ
I'm not usually one for government solutions but I think that
several years in the slammer for disrupting public communications
might help our friend, and anyone who aids or abets such
activity, repent.
ML/NJ
EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)
Karen Mercedes wrote:
>
> These are excerpts of the very lengthy automated reply I just received
> from Dizum.com, the owner of the automated remailer and news service our
> pornographer is using:
>
> The relevant information (for us) is about the Mail2News gateway operated
> by Dizum.com (a Dutch firm, it appears) - specifically the answer to
> Question #8 in their FAQ about the Mail2News gateway. Also most relevant
> is item "J" at the end of the abridged autoreply message - i.e., how to
> contact a HUMAN at Dizum.com to deal with abuse cases (the contact address
> is ab...@zedz.net).
>
> I am not terribly hopeful that Dizum.com will do anything about "A.
> Melon", but I suggest we all follow the recommended procedures to notify a
> human being. Maybe if enough of us ask to have A. Melon's news posting
> capabilities suspended, Dizum.com will give in.
I've not yet SEEN any posts by "A. Melon", but my unread messages are
flooded with dozens and dozens and dozens of repeats of previously
posted comments from Elizabeth Hubbell (some of them dating back to
March, 2003). Who's responsible for those? (I'm sure it's not Ms.
Hubbell.)
Noam
Noam
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