Re: [OFFTOPIC] to whom to complain (was Re: UseNet Gateway One Way ok?) (fwd)

David A. Gatwood (marsmail@globegate.utm.edu)
Sun, 25 May 1997 19:04:32 -0500 (CDT)


On Sun, 25 May 1997, Trevor Johnson wrote:

> I had written to abuse@agis.net asking politely to be removed from Cyber
> Promotions' lists, but only got the automated response. I asked rudely,
> and got the same automated response. I asked my ISP to refuse mail from
> ispam.net, but got no answer. Procmail is not installed there, and their
> compiler doesn't work properly either. I'll probably have my mail
> forwarded to another account where procmail is available. In the
> meantime, I like to believe that some of the thousands of messages I've
> sent back to them caused someone to pause for a moment and question what
> they're doing. If you have a civilized approach which you find effective,
> more power to you. If everyone were as civilized as you, AGIS and
> cyberpromo would be running all their machines continuously until everyone
> on the Net refused traffic from them and they found it unprofitable to do
> business.

Here's a thought... if you're not the nameserver for your domain, just
tell the nameserver to ignore requests from those domains, and laugh as
all their mail bounces back to their postmaster and creates a fun mess.
:-)

David