May 26, 1997
Dear Mr. President,
As the first president who called the world's attention to
the Internet, you have a vested interest in its success.
Recently terrible things have been happening on the Internet
which, if left unchecked, will lead to its demise as the
"Information Superhighway" that you have promoted.
Unscrupulous persons have been flooding the Internet Mail
with unwanted, unauthorized, and undisciplined junk mail.
Unlike the United States Mail, where public laws are in
place to remove myself from advertising lists, I apparently
have no recourse but to read and delete hundreds of
unsolicited broadcast mail messages every time I turn on my
computer. I do not have a background in law. I only know
what I feel. If if looks like a duck and quacks like a duck,
then as far as I am concerned, it is a duck.
This duck is the theft of services. Every time I must delete
these unwanted mail messages, someone has made an
unauthorized access to my computing equipment. They have
stolen my resources, they have stolen my Internet access
bandwidth for which I pay, and they have stolen my time to
read and delete their trash. I feel as though I have been
raped.
These unscrupulous operators use computer programs to
intercept Internet communications and extract email
addresses. These programs then send advertising messages en
masse to unsuspecting Internet users. The result being that
every email message sent on the Internet could potentially
cause the sender to receive thousands of advertising
messages.
New companies are coming on-line every day. The latest, most
irksome is called "CyberPromo". It raided an email list from
vger.rutgers.edu, and has flooded everyone with whom I
generally communicate, with thousands of advertising
messages.
Please find someone to look into this developing mess and
bring it under control.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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Richard B. Johnson
Project Engineer
Analogic Corporation
Voice : (508) 977-3000 ext. 3754
Fax : (508) 532-6097
Modem : (508) 977-6870
Ftp : ftp@boneserver.analogic.com
Email : rjohnson@analogic.com, johnson@analogic.com
Penguin : Linux version 2.1.40 on an i586 machine (66.15 BogoMips).
Warning : I read unsolicited mail for $350.00 per hour. Supply billing address.
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