Re: Crappy users

Jacob Suter (jsuter@intrastar.net)
Tue, 11 Jun 1996 01:37:23 -0500

> Why not jerk his account? It will be painfully obvious to the net where
> he's getting his feed, and when he ignores the complaints, you'll get them
> in spades. Plus, other spammers will view you as a spam-friendly site,
> and before you know it much of the rest of the net will dump mail from
> your site into the bit-bucket, and/or start complaining to _your_
> provider.

Well, he found I wasn't playing mother-hen to my network today (I was out with a
possible future girlfriend) and he decided it was his chance to spam the
universe. I've recieved about 150 "gee, what a dumbass" messages, 25 threats,
and about 5 "f--k you" messages (addressed only to me... I felt kinda hurt).

> Pull the plug on the spammer. It isn't worth keeping him.

And thats exactly what I did. I killed his Email (I do mail through Post.Office
for NT - which has rode the situation out quite well considering its only got 24
megs ram 8^)

> It does, and will, have your fingerprints all over it. It isn't worth the
> $20 per month or so. Pull the plug.

$35 here, and I agree.

> Encourage him to go to another ISP. Send him to your worst competitor.
> You _don't_ want this customer. Really, you don't.

Very true.... Thanks for the great advice.

As I read this message I noticed that my network light was GLOWING, and the HD
on the mail machine wasn't thrashing, but looked like it might be thinking about
it. I knocked him off (reset s4) and the network went back to normal, the HD
quit thrashing... I looked through my mail (which was a LOT more than usual)
and saw all these hatemails.. His Email was revoked in less than 15 seconds.

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Wow, didn't I see a reply from you in there basically saying "what a lamer".

TO ALL PEOPLE WHO MAY HAVE GOT DA SPAM..... REALLY SORRY FOLX!!!