Article 14337 of alt.sex.cthulhu: From: bs904@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Andrew Nellis) Newsgroups: alt.sex.cthulhu Subject: WAR JOURNAL: Victories, losses, and mail from home Date: 11 Mar 1997 22:22:02 GMT Week 2: Got encouraging response from the folks back home at alt.sex.cthulhu. Those lonely nights in the trenches with only a bottle of Coke Classic to keep me company become bearable, knowing that good wishes, electronic chicken-liver-with-herbs pate, and salami are winging their way towards me. Dissension in the ranks. Tried to send a communique back to headquarters detailing recent victories, but message never arrived. Wonder if message was cancelled by same moron that cancelled last one. Begin wondering whether the Anti-Spammers are actually any better or morally superior to the Spammers. War is hell. Attempting to send list of recent battlefield victories to headquarters again. Will delete all references to actual original spam in hopes our overzealous anti-spam killer robots will stop launching bombs at it. P.S.: Cracker supplies low. Send more salted-tops. (No fish-shapes please.) From brad.groshok@odyssey.on.ca Mon Mar 10 08:30:58 1997 Received: from mur.odyssey.on.ca (mur.odyssey.on.ca [207.107.112.1]) by freenet.carleton.ca (8.8.3/8.6.4) with ESMTP id IAA00724 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 08:30:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from groshok.ns.on.rogers.wave.ca (pc-1821.on.rogers.wave.ca [24.112.49.51]) by mur.odyssey.on.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA19382 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 08:31:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 08:31:04 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199703101331.IAA19382@mur.odyssey.on.ca> X-Sender: brad@mail.odyssey.on.ca X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: bs904@freenet.carleton.ca From: Brad Groshok Subject: Re: Spam originating at your site. Status: RO Yes I have received your message. I have sent messages to the originating person This is a paying customer of our service. I'm having difficulty with terminating a paying customers service. Actually I'm surprised that you are requesting a followup from us. This sort of thing happens all the time. I do appreciate the comment. I do agree 100% with you (and the 100's of other similar complaints) I do not however have the time to answer every person around the world that has a complaint regarding this one user. I will continue to address the situation on our end. At 12:41 AM 3/10/97 -0500, you wrote: > >(Note: I have not received a reply concerning my first indication to you >that someone at your site is spamming the Usenet. Please reply so I know >whether any action has been taken.) > > >To Whom It May Concern, > >I regret that one or more inappropriate advertisements has been posted to >the newsgroup "alt.sex.cthulhu" by someone at your site. Our newsgroup, as >is clearly stated in the regularly posted FAQ, does not permit this kind of >advertising. A copy of our FAQ can be found at: > > http://www.cthulhu.org/smut/FAQ > >As we are tucked in amongst the alt.sex hierarchy -- we being a newsgroup >dedicated to a rather tongue-in-cheek examination of sexuality in the >writings and milieu of H.P. Lovecraft -- we have a serious problem with >spam. We receive as many as 150 inappropriate mass-spam postings a day. > >I know that the proliferation of spam on the Usenet is an issue of import >to you and I both. I thank you for your attention to this matter. The >posting in question as well as the full header is appended below for your >reference. > Cthulhu fhtagn, > Andrew B. Nellis > (bs904@freenet.carleton.ca) > > > >Article 19080 of alt.sex.cthulhu: >Path: freenet-news.carleton.ca!cunews!nott!torn!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols .com!news.bconnex.net!news2.insinc.net!mur2.odyssey.on.ca!not-for-mail >From: "!TEEN EROTIC!" >Newsgroups: alt.sex.cthulhu,alt.sex.doom.with-sound,alt.sex.enemas,alt.sex.erotica.marke tplace,alt.sex.escorts.ads,alt.sex.escorts.ads.d,alt.sex.exhibitionism,alt.s ex.fat,alt.sex.femdom,alt.sex.fencing,alt.fetish,alt.sex.fetish.amputee,alt. sex.fetish.diapers,alt.sex.fetish.drew-barrymore >Subject: EROTIC TEEN PIX >Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 14:01:52 -0800 >Organization: Teen Erotic >Lines: 3 >Message-ID: <33233350.6E63@email.address> >Reply-To: noreply@email.address >NNTP-Posting-Host: ts1-34.odyssey.on.ca >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) >Xref: freenet-news.carleton.ca alt.sex.cthulhu:9663 alt.sex.enemas:28941 alt.sex.erotica.marketplace:126441 alt.sex.exhibitionism:168270 alt.sex.fat:49115 alt.sex.femdom:76237 alt.sex.fetish.amputee:11788 alt.sex.fetish.diapers:22198 > [message deleted in the hope it won't trigger spambots] ====================================================================== Regards: Brad Groshok (brad.groshok@odyssey.on.ca) President Odyssey Network Inc London Ontario Canada (519) 660-8883 http://www.odyssey.on.ca ====================================================================== From 0002127415@mcimail.com Tue Mar 11 02:56:53 1997 Received: from gatekeeper2.mcimail.com (gatekeeper2.mcimail.com [192.147.45.10]) by freenet.carleton.ca (8.8.3/8.6.4) with SMTP id CAA23813 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 02:56:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from mailgate6.mcimail.com (mailgate6.mcimail.com [166.40.135.40]) by gatekeeper2.mcimail.com (8.6.12/8.6.10) with SMTP id IAA04773; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 08:01:14 GMT Received: from mcimail.com by mailgate6.mcimail.com id aa32204; 11 Mar 97 7:58 WET Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 02:58 EST From: "Shawn A. Miller" <0002127415@mcimail.com> To: bs904 Subject: Re: Spam originating at your site Message-Id: <97031107581320/0002127415DF2EM@MCIMAIL.COM> Status: RO I am responding to your complaint about the messages you have been receiving from an internetMCI Customer. MCI is very concerned that its services and products not be used to harrass others or abuse the network. For that reason, our Terms and Conditions of Service prohibit our customers from, among other things, interfering with other users' enjoyment of the Internet. We are looking into your complaint(s) and, if we find this customer in violation of our Terms and Conditions of Service, we will take action as permitted under our Terms and Conditions of Service. Thank you for calling our attention to this matter. Should you receive any additional, similar message from this MCI customer, please feel free to contact us. Regards, Shawn A. Miller MCI Internet Marketing From coxmatt1@pilot.msu.edu Tue Mar 11 15:04:51 1997 Received: from pilot06.cl.msu.edu (pilot06.cl.msu.edu [35.9.5.16]) by freenet.carleton.ca (8.8.3/8.6.4) with ESMTP id PAA21481 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:04:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from default (pm248-23.dialip.mich.net [35.9.9.152]) by pilot06.cl.msu.edu (8.7.5/MSU-2.10) id PAA157080; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:04:04 -0500 Message-ID: <3325121A.5D63@pilot.msu.edu> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 03:04:42 -0500 From: ":-)" X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bs904@freenet.carleton.ca Subject: Re: Spam References: <199703110959.EAA16082@freenet3.carleton.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO Andrew Nellis wrote: > > Dear Sir or Madam, > > I regret to inform you that your recent posting (appended below) to the > alt.sex.cthulhu newsgroup is inappropriate. Our newsgroup, as explained > in our regularly-published FAQ, does not permit advertising. A copy of > the FAQ can be found at: > > http://cthulhu.org/smut/FAQ > > A copy of your advertisement has been forwarded to your postmaster. It is > hoped that this unfortunate situation does not recur in the future. > > Sincerely, > A.B. Nellis. > I am sorry that this happened, as I was not aware of the nature of your newsgroup. I know Almost all of them are made of of advertisements anyways. Sorry for the trouble. MATT From webmaster@planet.eon.net Tue Mar 11 10:26:37 1997 Received: from planet.eon.net (tigger.eon.net [199.185.220.36]) by freenet.carleton.ca (8.8.3/8.6.4) with SMTP id KAA22118 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:26:34 -0500 (EST) Received: (from webmaster@localhost) by planet.eon.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA28930; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 08:25:39 -0700 Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 08:25:39 -0700 (MST) From: WebMaster Mailbox To: Andrew Nellis Subject: Re: Spam originating at your site In-Reply-To: <199703110948.EAA15324@freenet3.carleton.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO Thank you for your recent e-mail detailing Usenet spam commerical advertising that was sent out from our site last weekend. [Text of spam deleted so as not to taunt spambots] We have identified the person responsible and sent them a strongly worded warning insisting that they stop this practice. If they continue the practice, we will take further action. TELUS PLAnet WebMaster Group From postmaster@worldnet.att.net Tue Mar 11 14:00:29 1997 Received: from mtigwc03.worldnet.att.net (mailhost.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.3]) by freenet.carleton.ca (8.8.3/8.6.4) with ESMTP id OAA07410 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 14:00:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from spam.set.worldnet.att.net ([135.173.8.83]) by mtigwc03.worldnet.att.net (post.office MTA v2.0 0613 ) with SMTP id ABG21306 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 18:59:34 +0000 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19970311190038.02366734@postoffice2.ops.worldnet.att.net> X-Sender: postmaster@postoffice2.ops.worldnet.att.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 14:00:38 -0500 To: bs904@freenet.carleton.ca From: AT&T WorldNet Postmaster Subject: Re: Spam originating at your site Status: RO Thank you for your concern and for alerting us to the suspected internet abuse. We will be investigating this issue in an effort to end such abuse. I have forwarded your complaint to the Abuse Desk, which handles such issues. Please send any future complaints to the Abuse Desk directly (if you have not already). Include the message header of the possible abusers e-mail as well as the path and identifier (timestamp and IP address)of the received message to: abuse@worldnet.att.net Regards, Postmaster At 10:00 AM 3/11/97 +0000, you wrote: >To Whom It May Concern, > >I regret that one or more inappropriate advertisements has been posted to >the newsgroup "alt.sex.cthulhu" by someone at your site. Our newsgroup, as >is clearly stated in the regularly posted FAQ, does not permit this kind of >advertising. A copy of our FAQ can be found at: > > http://www.cthulhu.org/smut/FAQ > >As we are tucked in amongst the alt.sex hierarchy -- we being a newsgroup >dedicated to a rather tongue-in-cheek examination of sexuality in the >writings and milieu of H.P. Lovecraft -- we have a serious problem with >spam. We receive as many as 150 inappropriate mass-spam postings a day. > >I know that the proliferation of spam on the Usenet is an issue of import >to you and I both. I thank you for your attention to this matter. The >posting in question as well as the full header is appended below for your >reference. > Cthulhu fhtagn, > Andrew B. Nellis > (bs904@freenet.carleton.ca) > > > >Article 19324 of alt.sex.cthulhu: >[Text of spam snipped to keep from offending cancel-happy vigialnte idiots] More updates as situation warrants. Captain Nellis out. -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ ........................................... | Andrew Nellis | ."When you see the crowd going one way, . | bs904@freenet.carleton.ca | . run like hell in the other direction." . +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ .................Charles Bukowski..........