--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 106 DISCUSS INTERNET Ref: EGK00002Date: 12/15/97 From: JONATHAN ROBERTS Time: 11:12pm \/To: SHAUN EWING (Read 0 times) Subj: More on...."SPAM"... RE: More on...."SPAM"... BY: Shaun Ewing to Jonathan Roberts on Thu Dec 11 1997 08:51 am OTE: DCTEdit v0.01 > It can be found at http://www.cauce.org :) Here's some new taglines that I've seen used for internet mail... /-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\ Pursuant to US Code, Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, Sec. 227, this system levies archival / downloading fees for unsolicited email messages. For a complete fee schedule, send an email to this address with "FEE SCHEDULE" as the subject or the message. Any inclusion of my user-id in any mailing list without my expressed prior WRITTEN approval, to include the unauthorized reselling of this user-id to mailing list vendors, will be met with an immediate complaint to your internet provider. /-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\ "By US Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), a computer/modem/printer meets the definition of a telephone fax machine. By Sec.227(b)(1)(C), it is unlawful to send any unsolicited advertisement to such equipment. By Sec.227(b)(3)(C), a violation of the aforementioned Section is punishable by action to recover actual monetary loss, or $500, whichever is greater, for each violation." A copy can be found at: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html I'm not sure how legally binding either of them in the US. (No legal value in your country at all, I guess!) However, the second is more detailed and makes sense ie. the part explaining how a computer w/ modem & printer is a fax machine. If anything, it may scare away some would-be human spammers. - Gremlin ... "Aw, mom, you act like I'm not even wearing a bungee cord!" --- Synchronet+SBBSecho v1.25 * Origin: The Caverns BBS - 504.831.2825 (1:396/20) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 106 DISCUSS INTERNET Ref: EGK00003Date: 12/15/97 From: JONATHAN ROBERTS Time: 11:13pm \/To: SHAUN EWING (Read 0 times) Subj: New Internet Site!!! RE: New Internet Site!!! BY: Shaun Ewing to VICTOR NG on Fri Dec 12 1997 12:32 am OTE: DCTEdit v0.01 > Freeware.com actually redirects to http://www.shareware.com so the reeware > domain is a bit useless > Do you agree? I believe they were seperate at one time. Either that or c|net decided to change it due to the majority of the files not being free! - Gremlin ... A skydiving school is one in which you MUST be a dropout to graduate. --- Synchronet+SBBSecho v1.25 * Origin: The Caverns BBS - 504.831.2825 (1:396/20) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 106 DISCUSS INTERNET Ref: EGK00004Date: 12/15/97 From: JONATHAN ROBERTS Time: 11:15pm \/To: SHAWN KIRKHAM (Read 0 times) Subj: Yahoo Virus.... RE: Yahoo Virus.... BY: Shawn Kirkham to All on Fri Dec 12 1997 11:48 am OTE: DCTEdit v0.01 > Did anyone see the story about the fake Yahoo Virus a couple of days ago? > I guess someone tapped into their Web site and posted something about how > anyone logging onto Yahoo! got a virus....Just curious as to who heard the n > on this one... I heard about it, but assumed it was the usual BS. - Gremlin ... "Speak the truth, but leave immediately after." -- Yugoslav Proverb --- Synchronet+SBBSecho v1.25 * Origin: The Caverns BBS - 504.831.2825 (1:396/20) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 106 DISCUSS INTERNET Ref: EGL00000Date: 12/15/97 From: SHAUN EWING Time: 05:31pm \/To: UBAIDULLAH NUBAR (Read 0 times) Subj: Articles lost in inews! > SE> From what I remember, Internet News has a deleted folder, you should > SE> be able to find some/all of the messages in there if you have not > SE> already deleted them > Hi Shaun, > Thanks for the reply. The Internet News I have installed > over here > doesn't seem to have a deleted folder. It is version > 4.70.1155. > Anyway, I found my messages in the original folder. The > option > 'View Unread Messages Only' was on. My > mistake. Well, as they say all's well that ends well :) I'm glad you found the problem :) Cya, Shaun Ewing ImmortalNet Admin - shaunewing@usa.net ... Six megs, two monitors, and an attitude --- FMail/Win32 1.22 * Origin: Immortal Net World HQ & Internet Distribution system (3:712/848.5) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 106 DISCUSS INTERNET Ref: EGL00001Date: 12/14/97 From: JIM WOODWARD Time: 07:48pm \/To: FLOYD NEWBERRY (Read 0 times) Subj: fbrowser Let me know, please, how the filelister works, Thanks --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: Woody's NutHouse (1:268/412) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 106 DISCUSS INTERNET Ref: EGL00002Date: 12/13/97 From: VICTOR NG Time: 01:37pm \/To: SHAUN EWING (Read 0 times) Subj: New Internet Site!!! SE> Freeware.com actually redirects to http://www.shareware.com so the SE> freeware domain is a bit useless Do you agree? I agree! Do you know of any other real FREEWARE sites? ... "What?!? This isn't the Files section?!?" --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 * Origin: Juxtaposition BBS. Lasalle, Quebec, Canada (1:167/133) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 106 DISCUSS INTERNET Ref: EGL00003Date: 12/17/97 From: SEAN TOTH Time: 01:42am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Netscape Macros? Hey Gang!, I spend ALOT of time on the WWW filling out suveys and the like. Needless to say, filling out form after form can get very tedious and repetitive. To make matters worse, I only have 1 hand and am visually impaired so the average form that takes a able-bodied person 2-3 minutes to do, takes me 7-8 minutes to do. I was wondering if there is are any utilities for Netscape and/or IR (any version) that allows somebody to insert program macros for information that is asked on ALL the forms (name,address,city,state,zip etc.)? This would make my life SO much easier and MUCH more efficient! Thanks in advanced and HAPPY HOLIDAYS!. P.S. Oh, for those of you that want to earn extra money while surfing the web, there are about 150 survey sites out there that pay you anywhere from $.50 - $100.00 taking surveys! Go to your favorite search engine and search for 'surveys'. Its IDEAL for disABLED people like myself with fixed incomes and alot of free time! ] --- QScan/PCB v1.19b / 01-0232 * Origin: IBMNet Connection - Indpls, IN - 317-882-5575 28.8 USR (1:231/1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 106 DISCUSS INTERNET Ref: EGL00004Date: 12/16/97 From: LAWRENCE LUCIER Time: 11:30am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: *** Moderator bans ACSI.net * From: Mick.Brown@super.zippo.com (COOA Moderator) * Subject: *** Moderator bans ACSI.net On a hopeful note, AGIS networks has disconnected cyberpromo and all but one of their bulk email customers. I have not received any AGIS related spam in several weeks! Even some of AGIS strongest critics are now cautiously optimistic about recent AGIS trends. I have discontinued any actions I have taken previously against AGIS or their investor AllTel due to previous spam related problems with AGIS customers. I hope these positive trends at AGIS continue. AGIS has turned from being one of the worst sources of spam, to one of the better providers. Why? Because people were complaining about the unwanted spam they received. I urge you to report at least some of your spams to their providers. Complaints work. You cannot expect the other guy to complain for you. ====== Due to unrelenting email and USENET spamming I am banning ACSI.net based submissions to this group. If I can safely alias ACSI.net servers I shall do so. ACSI has been under UDP for a month or so with little apparent positive spam removal activity: The only positives I know of are placing a robot to reply to complaints to abuse@acsi.net and publication of an Acceptable Use Policy. Their other visible activities appear to include signing new email spammers, disabling traceroute and ping in their network, total disregard of 6t9.com's continuing 10,000 to 15,000 daily sex spams in USENET which is primarily why ACSI was UDPed. It also appears that most of the recent defections from AGIS hosting have moved to ACSI.net where they have become even more prolific in their attacks on my email addresses. One of this morning's ACSI.net hosted spams was some sort of a stock offering from JT's Restaurants, Inc. They claimed to be on NASDAQ which is untrue, and NASDAQ and the US SEC are investigating JT. This spam has been reported to ACSI for weeks with no visible action or letup in the frequency of complaints in the news.admin.net-abuse.* newsgroups. ACSI is traded on NASDAQ symbol ACNS. ========= Note that many of the former AGIS hosted spammers are placing false DNS and whois information in router tables and Internic. After Regulus.net was disconnected from AGIS, Regulus's admin announced DNS pointing to AGIS IP numbers it didn't own and set MX records to point to their live ACSI space. This had the effect of causing the mail responses to get back to their ACSI based servers while the traceroutes went into AGIS netspace and caused a lot of misdirected complaints to AGIS operations. Some other DNS tricks the dislocated spammers are using are naming (reverse mapping) their routers to bogus entries. One recent trace seems to go to s13.edelweiss.net but my checks show that it really is one of of the *.alpina1.net machines. I assume that this nasty trick will cause edelweiss.net to get complaints due to alpina1.net's spamming It appears that many bulk emailers are liars and cheats... and afraid to face the consequences to their actions so they forge to deflect complaints. -- Mick _____________________________________________________________________ | NOTE: Please send submissions by EMAIL os2_ann_req@bix.com | Correspondence to the COOA Moderator: lfirrantello@bix.com . | Please see: http://www.bix.com/pub/os2ann/pindex.htm for posting guidelines --- Sqed/32 1.14/r15155 * Origin: T-Shirts 'N Genes BBS - (250) 748-3408 v32b v42b XA CM (1:340/204) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 106 DISCUSS INTERNET Ref: EGM00000Date: 12/15/97 From: DANIEL ROSENZWEIG Time: 06:59pm \/To: JIM VENEDAM (Read 0 times) Subj: Juno echo I'm a point node and it wasn't available on the list of Echos which I could bring in. My Host had to request it from farther upstream first. > On (01 Dec 97) Robert L. Kunz wrote to All... > I get JUNO thru my point, but so far, there are no > BBSs in my > net that have JUNO. --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: ***** Doni's Point Node 1:278/404.4 ***** (1:278/404.4) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 106 DISCUSS INTERNET Ref: EGM00001Date: 12/15/97 From: ALLEN WEBBER Time: 06:05pm \/To: VICTOR NG (Read 0 times) Subj: New Internet Site!!! VN> SE> Freeware.com actually redirects to http://www.shareware.com so the VN> SE> freeware domain is a bit useless Do you agree? VN> I agree! Do you know of any other real FREEWARE sites? Victor Try www.nonags.com Lots of freeware. Not junk. Some have been tryed and rated. --- SLMR 2.1a --- QScan/PCB v1.16b / 01-0507 * Origin: The Electronic Grapevine [707] 257-2338 (1:161/910)