🚀 go-pugleaf

Mike Krantz wrote:
> [newsgroup list trimmed (sufficiently, I hope)]
> [posted and e-mailed]

> ka...@no.spam.com wrote:
> > In article <33c86e15...@128.200.15.230>, Prime@ni.netSmith says...
> > >On Sun, 13 Jul 1997 09:58:18 +0800, Roger Chiu <d...@dognet.org.hk>
> > >wrote:
 
> > >>Yep... Try to find the source and let's us to mail bomb it...
> > >Lets not. The people in the headers (me included) are not responsible
> > >for this. It is an anti-spammer trying to annoy us when people do as
> > >you just suggested.
> > An anti-spammer? 
> I think this fellow meant "anti-spamTrasher."  These people
> routinely deal with SPAM on the internet in such a way as to
> vastly reduce it's impact and preponderance.  Have you noticed
> an increase in SPAM in the past week?  From 4 July until yesterday,
> they have halted their generous activities in order that we (and
> the ISPs) may see the true enormity of the SPAM problem.  The clown
> who is sending these (mutlti-part binary) messages has tried to
> distract attention from this by harassing the rest of us with
> messages forged to identify the SPAMfighters.  Every ID in these
> messages is forged.  None is simply left from the perp.  He may
> be a useless ass throwing a temper tantrum, but he's hiding well
> enough that it will require some effort from experienced people
> to flush him out.
> 
> I just hope they don't get so fed up with the kind of abuse
> you are encouraging that they just give up and let the SPAMmers
> win.  That may be the goal of these messages.
> 
> In the meantime, do you really want to be a mindless tool
> of the SuperSPAMmer?  Who is accountable for his behavior --
> himself or anyone who doesn't give in to his extorsion?
> Who is responsible for your words and actions?

Ah.  It's good that there are those who can and do do something
about spam.  In the mean time, newsgroups have been trimmed a
little bit more.